Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 13:48:47 EST


On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:43:49PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:

> I've seen this on a partition with NO other activity, than me
> editing a .c file with emacs in a project consisting of about 4
> files in total, compiling and testingocasionally, editing again,
> etc... Then one day, powerloss, when power came back, the file was
> nothing but null. Atleast it had correct size and timestamp though,
> great comfort, that. :)


This is expected. XFS does not journal data. If you want that then
use ext3 or reiserfs.


--cw
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