Re: Incredibly slow rebuild of small access_db on xfs partition

[Jarek Luberek <jarek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 May 2001 00:36, you wrote:
> Jarek Luberek wrote:
> > Which b.t.w. reminds me that /etc/hosts was full of NULL yesterday too.
> > May be the same problem. I'll keep looking for clues.
>
> Did the system come down abnormally?
Possibly. My GeForce256 locks up occasionally during boot (which is why I 
started to use a journaling file system in the first place)
> It's possible to have unwritten data in cache that would not be on
> disk of the system crash or was not cleanly shutdown.
I do edit /etc/hosts every boot and the lock-up occurs soon
after that when X start. Is xfs journaling meta-data only?

> Since file size updates are  one thing that is not logged, the size of the
> file may have been updated correctly but the actually data never went to
> disk.

/jarek