I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I've been unable to find a definitive answer to this question.
Probably everyone is familiar with the lengthy discussion that has revolved around the first stable implementation of ext4, namely that all data in a file can be zeroed out (including the original copy) in the event of a system crash even for the presumably safe open-write-close-rename paradigm; e.g. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781?comments=all In his blog, Ted Ts'o comments that the 2.6.30 patch for this has been backported by Canonical to 9.04 (I think somewhere in the comments to this entry) http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/ Can anyone confirm that if I start formatting file servers with 9.04-based ext4 partitions users won't be faced with losing dozens of recently saved files if the server happens to crash? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
