On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:17, kris buggenhout wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 05:23, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > I know about XFS's zeroing of files for such files that were still
> > marked as
> > > dirty when the crash occured. I wonder about two things:
> > >
> > > o Why are 15-20 minutes old files also wiped out? Are the
> > write-backs that
> > > much delayed (even if there is not other FS/CPU load)?
> > >
> > > o What is the best way to find these files (why aren't their names
> > simply
> > > dumped to the kernel logs)? Something like
> > >
> > > find . -xdev -type f \! -empty | xargs <grep for non-zero
> > character here>
> > >
> > > What's the best expression for the last part?
> > >
> > > (Red Hat 8.0 & XFS 1.2)
> > > --
> > > Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > You need to try the current cvs kernel, there was a major rework of
> > xfs
> > sync recently which should have fixed this.
> >
> > Steve
> current cvs kernel as in 2.4.x or 2.5.x ?
Both should have it.
Steve
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