Re: Files on XFS not safe?!

[Dan Hollis <goemon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Peter Wächtler wrote:
> Dan Hollis schrieb:
> > 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.

Never had scrambled tails either..

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

You can turn off tailmerging with mount option 'notail' ...

-Dan
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