Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

Andreas Schwab
2004-07-10T19:37:22Z

Norberto Bensa <norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> writes:

> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>> XFS does not journal data.
>
> I think we all know that. The point, why the hell does it null files?

Security. You don't want old contents of /etc/shadow appear in random
files after a crash.

Andreas.

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