Re: Very Large File Splatter

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On 22 February 2013 21:04, Brian Smither <bhsmither@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PHP 5.4.4-TS-VC9 on Windows XP SP3 NTFS non-system drive with 18GB free.
>
> I dare not try to replicate this. As such, I cannot firmly place the blame on PHP.
>
> I have peppered a PHP application with a call to a function which appends-only to a logfile the parameters passed to it. Each pass of the application creates many MB of content.
>
> It is conceivable that I ran out of hard drive space.
>
> When that which what I was working on seemed to be acting very weird, I rebooted the computer only to see thousands of lines scroll by from Windows repairing the file system.
>
> I discovered logfile contents in many dozens of files. The timestamp and filesize of the damaged files were not changed. Only the contents replaced with slices of the logfile.
>
> Again, I'm not going to try to 'intentionally' replicate this, so I ask:
>
> Has PHP's interface with the NTFS file sub-system ever been reported to splatter a file across the contents of a drive?

At this stage, the safest option is a restore from your backups.

Cross linked files often mean the tail end of one of the cross linked
files is now orphaned.

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