On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote: > Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my > share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some > kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use > ext4, then it's almost mandatory to use the 'nodelalloc' mount option, > unless you're positive that unclean shutdowns are unlikely in your setup > or you don't care about lost data. Isn't that option auto_da_alloc? -- Shridhar