Re: File corruption

[Federico Sevilla III <jijo@leathercollection.ph>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 at 08:40, Larry Altneu wrote:
> I am experiencing a problem that results in corruption of the data for
> a freshly written file. It is very reproducible by creating and saving
> a file with vi and then pulling the plug on the system. When it comes
> back up, the file exists with the proper size but it contains all
> zeros. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Those zeroes are binary zeroes: the null character. I remember this was
discussed before (you could search the archives, I do believe the XFS list
is archived by marc.theaimsgroup.com). I cannot quite remember exactly
what causes this, though. Maybe the gurus can reply when they're not so
busy.

Maybe we can add a FAQ entry for this? I think it's asked frequently
enough. :)

 --> Jijo

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