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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:22:11 +0200
From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
Subject: Re: XFS null files
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To: Jeff Briggs <ephemeral.elusive@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:32:49PM +0100, Jeff Briggs wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've just lost data to XFS, with the files full of nulls. I've found
> posts dating back over two years about such data losses. I'm using
> linux 2.6.17 with xfsprogs 2.8.10.
FWIW, I've never lost files since disabling write cache on disks.
> 
> emacs claims to fsync on write, yet still I lost data, the faq
> suggests I should not have if this is so?
Have you disabled the write cache of your storage, or is your storage
battery-backed?

Iustin Pop