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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:44:00 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Roy Butler <roy.butler@jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: kconfig's file handling (was: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?)
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:27:50PM -0700, Roy Butler wrote:

> By example, if you create a file, write to it, and then delete it
> fast enough, it will never hit the disk under XFS.

Nor will it under some other filesystems...  and in the above scenario
I'm not sure that matters, why must a temporary file hit the disk at
all?


   --cw