Re: [SLUG] FS errors

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 16:32:09 EDT


Ian C. Blenke wrote:

<snip>

> If you see nothing but 0000's, the file has been zeroed out. We usually
> see this when file is open for writing when a system running XFS is
> powered off abruptly. Hooray for metadata journaled filesystems (where
> the actual data isn't journalled).

You mean to say that XFS doesn't journal the *data*? What good is that?

Paul

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