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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:22:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010606172209.A3362@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000201c0e9c5$7643d540$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <3B16780F.D5FF04D8@namesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B16780F.D5FF04D8@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0700

Hi,

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:

> > /etc/hosts (or anywhere). As a tesult, startx hung starting X server; it was
> > not possible to switch to alpha console or kill X server. I pressed reset
> > and after reboot looked into /var/log/XFree86*log - and there were a bunch
> > of ^@ there.

> this is the nature of metadata journaling filesystems.

Umm, no, it isn't.  Ext3 would never allow that to happen in ordered
metadata-journaling mode, and Chris Mason is already working to remove
that window in reiserfs.  It is by no means a necessary consequence of
doing metadata-only journaling.

--Stephen

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-06 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-31 11:33 NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again Andrej Borsenkow
2001-05-31 13:56 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-31 16:57 ` Hans Reiser
2001-06-06 16:22   ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-06-07 17:04     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] <fa.kdp2rnv.1bma03f@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-07 16:31 ` Tor Arntsen

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