On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:26:28PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > The patch also has the potential danger that the data blocks are > > getting zeroed before the transaction which contains the unlink has > > committed. There is therefore the risk that the system might crash > > after the blocks have been zero'ed, but before transaction has > > committed. In that case, the file will still be there, but some or > > all of its contents will be zero'ed. > > That might be considered a feature. I don't think so. Deletes should be atomic. I could certainly see programs where a file should either be deleted, or not deleted. For a file to be partially corrupted but not deleted could ruin an application's consistency assumptions. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
