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Re: strange result of an XFS crash test

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Subject: Re: strange result of an XFS crash test
From: "Stewart Smith" <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:09:37 +1000 (EST)
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Michal Szymanski said:
> It that what I should expect from a journalling file system?

Yes - the journalling protects the filesystem metadata, not your data.

run a 'sync' (or fsync) after each file write and you'll get something
quite different.
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Stewart Smith (stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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