Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

Bill Rugolsky Jr. (brugolsky@yahoo.com)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:22:25 -0400


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:06:01PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> ln tmp/x peek/x

In fact, make that

ln tmp/x peek/x
<- MTA does the fsync()
less peek/x
<- MTA closes the file.
rm peek/x
(peek gets written asynchronously to disk)
*CRASH*

Then we are back to "lost+found", nothing gained.

Regards,

Bill Rugolsky
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