At 18:16 2-9-2001 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
Why is this? If I open a file, text/otherwise and the power actually fails,
(i turn it off), once in a while I get a corrupt file. Why is this? What
would happen if I was writing to some Oracle filesystems and this situation
occurred? Please advise.
See the http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
A database would survive since most have their own buffering and
transaction scheme.
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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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