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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:51:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal)
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 18:43, Alan Jenkins<alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> wrote:

> If I remove the corrupted file and copy a "known good" copy into it's place,
> then the corruption doesn't happen.  I've verified this a couple of times.
>  The corruption only occurs if the file was created by "locale-gen".

Does it use things like: fallocate()?

Kay