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

Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-10T19:41:12Z

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:33:34PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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

If we had a different log format we could determine if the blocks were
newly allocated and avoid zeroing that for existing files, we could
even do the code to aggregate transactions which would be *really*
nice for some things. Lots of work though.

--cw