On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:51:54PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Since the introduction of ext4, some apps/users have had issues with >> file corruption after a system crash. It's not a bug in the FS AFAIK >> and it's not exclusive to ext4. >> Writing a temp file, fsync, rename is often proposed. >> But how does one preserve meta-data, including file owner? > > What's the use case where preserving file ownership matters? Why is it you ignore most of the question and only challenge a tiny bit? I can't think of a problem case right now, but I sure can't guarantee always resetting file owner is never a problem. Olaf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
