On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > create temp file > write out new data > delete old file > rename temp file to primary name > === > > If so there is still a little window of vulnerability where the whole > file can be lost. Â(Or at least only the temp file is present). Delete isn't used, rename will overwrite the old file. So it's safe. Meta-data is probably lost, file owner is certainly lost. 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
