Re: different behaviour between XFS and ext3

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:52, Blair Barnett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a simple shell script that writes numbers to a file and every 10
> numbers does a sync and after 40 does a reboot. I've attached the script
> to this email.
> 
> If the file is written to an EXT3 filesystem, then file contains the
> numbers 1-40. However, if the file is written to an XFS 1.1,1.2, or 1.3
> filesystem, then file contains the numbers 1-10.
> 
> Can someone tell me if this is a feature of XFS or a bug?
> 
Hi,

If after sync you don't see data, it looks like a big bug for me.

Regards,

Olaf Fraczyk