From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266345AbUGJSqy (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:46:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266348AbUGJSqx (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:46:53 -0400 Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.77]:4776 "EHLO pimout1-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266345AbUGJSqj (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:46:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:46:01 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Jan Knutar Cc: L A Walsh , Norberto Bensa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? Message-ID: <20040710184601.GB5014@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200407050247.53743.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> <40EEC9DC.8080501@tlinx.org> <20040709215955.GA24857@taniwha.stupidest.org> <200407102143.49838.jk-lkml@sci.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407102143.49838.jk-lkml@sci.fi> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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