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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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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