On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:57:02AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > For instance, some editors don't perform fsync-then-rename, but simply > truncate the file when saving (because they want to preserve hard > links). With XFS, this tends to cause null bytes on crashes. Since > ext3 has got a much larger install base, this would result in lots of > bug reports, I fear.
XFS has recently been changed to only updated the on-disk i_size after data writeback has finished to get rid of this irritation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
