Re: vim file write mode on journaling fs.

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 22:43 10-8-2001 +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
> > Does it only happen when overwriting an existing file?  I would expect the
> > same to happen when writing a new file.  E.g. when using:
>
>I asume this is the case.
>
> >       cp file1 file2
> >       rm file1
> >
> > Could you end up with an invalid file2 while file1 has been deleted 
> already?

The following script was used.

#!/bin/sh
echo Test > file1
cp file1 file2
rm file1

When the script completes I hit the big red switch and sure enough. After 
recovery the file1 does not exist (that is ok) but file2 is empty and does 
not have data but it does have a size of 5 bytes.

So something is biting us. I would expect file2 to be non existant (because 
it didn't get written yet or the correct file. This is in between.

My brain is starting to hurt.

Cheers
Seth
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Seth
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