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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@Lichtvoll.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: massively truncated files with XFS with sudden power loss on 2.6.27 and 2.6.28
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:29:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081229192957.GC18092@puku.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4959205E.4000000@thebarn.com>

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:09:18PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:

> The question that I have is regards to kde apps.

i just did a quick strace of something, i see it do:


open newfile
write data
close file
rename newfile over oldfile

no fsync before close...


this will bite xfs more than ext3 w/ ordered mode

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-30  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29 18:20 massively truncated files with XFS with sudden power loss on 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-29 19:03 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-12-29 19:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-29 20:00   ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-30  0:14   ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-12-29 19:09 ` Russell Cattelan
2008-12-29 19:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-29 19:29   ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2008-12-29 20:09     ` Russell Cattelan
2008-12-29 20:17       ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-12-29 21:25         ` Russell Cattelan
2008-12-29 21:56       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-29 19:48 ` safe writing in applications (was: Re: massively truncated files with XFS with sudden power loss on 2.6.27 and 2.6.28) Martin Steigerwald
2008-12-29 19:54   ` Christoph Hellwig

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