From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:25:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:25:38 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:24056 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:25:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:22:09 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Andrej Borsenkow , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie Subject: Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again. Message-ID: <20010606172209.A3362@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <000201c0e9c5$7643d540$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <3B16780F.D5FF04D8@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B16780F.D5FF04D8@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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