On 8/16/2010 at 07:11 PM, Jean-Daniel Dodin <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Le 16/08/2010 00:33, Linda Walsh a écrit :
That's because they overwrote them, then pulled the plug before the new data could be written.
but a journaled file system is specially made to make this harmless. and at the boot ntime, lost operations are "replayed" to correct things. i'm pretty sure xfs do this also.
XFS only journals metadata, not regular user data inside files. But anyway, the "NULL files" problem was fixed about three years ago: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=... See also: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_do_I_see_binary_NULLS_in_some_files_... Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong <tserong@novell.com> Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org