Re: rename problem on vfat file systems

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:12:26 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, abc abc wrote:

> If I reboot the machine just after the rename() call
> is completed, when the machine comes up the file
> /mnt/sns-c/segments/segfile has zero bytes and there
> is no file in the tmp directory. Effectively the file
> is lost some where. Running fsck recovers the file,
> but it doesn't help me much because I would be copying
> hundreds of files and its difficult to match the
> files.
>
> Can you think of any thing that might be causing this.

Crappy filesystem layout. If you want to do something a-la journalling
for VFAT - seek professional help.

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