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Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?
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Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
>>XFS does not journal data.
> 
> 
> I think we all know that. The point, why the hell does it null files?

See http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs9.html
- under the section 'Journaling'.

Thanks,
--GS