Re: System lock while accessing files causes file corruption

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
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