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data corruption after hard halt

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Subject: data corruption after hard halt
From: Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:48:18 +0200
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Hello.

Yesterday we faced a massive power outage. On our master file server
(NFS, Samba, Netatalk) running linux-2.4.21-xfs, some files that were
modified a few seconds before the outage on the NFS clients have been
truncated to zero sizes on the server.

These were not *new* files, but files existing long before this
failure. Perhaps this is related to the way the software (Emacs in
particular) write files when modifying them, but I am not sure about
this.

What can I do to prevent this ? 

Many thanks in advance.


PS: by now, this server is running "SGI-XFS CVS-2003-09-24_05:00_UTC",
kernel that was installed a few days before this power outage.

-- 
Nicolas


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