Re: Files on XFS not safe?!

[Peter Wächtler <pwaechtler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Hollis schrieb:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Harri Haataja wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:47:41AM -0500, Xianglong Yuan wrote:
> > > >-Paulo Sergio Lemes Queiroz [05 Dec 2001 13:15 -0200] wrote:
> > > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
> > > Thanks. Is this true for all the journaling FS, say ReiserFS,
> > > JFS?
> > Maybe I might bring up this
> > http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=389
> 
> FWIW I never had reiserfs nulling files... it is either more resistant to
> such situations or it operates in a totally different way than XFS.
> 

But perhaps "scrambled tails"? AFAIK, ReiserFS moves the tails of files to put
several into one disk block.

I lost a lot of work due to this - ok it was just setiathome :))