From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266361AbUGJThW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:37:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266358AbUGJThW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:37:22 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:65455 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266360AbUGJThN (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:37:13 -0400 To: Norberto Bensa Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Jan Knutar , L A Walsh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? References: <200407050247.53743.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> <200407102143.49838.jk-lkml@sci.fi> <20040710184601.GB5014@taniwha.stupidest.org> <200407101555.27278.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: But was he mature enough last night at the lesbian masquerade? Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:33:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200407101555.27278.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> (Norberto Bensa's message of "Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:55:26 -0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Norberto Bensa 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."