Re: Zero length files - an alternative approach?

Andreas T.Auer
2009-03-29T12:03:15Z

On 29.03.2009 13:22 Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Consider this scenario:
>
> 1. Create/write/close newfile
> 2. Rename newfile to oldfile
> 3. Open/read oldfile. This must return the new contents.
> 4. System crash and reboot before delayed allocation/flush complete
> 5. Open/read oldfile. Old contents now returned.
>
> This rollback isn't obviously, to me at least, without problems of its
> own.
>
>
Having the old data in 5) is far better than having no data in 5).