Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:56:25 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | | Subject | Re: safe file systems |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Harald Milz wrote:
> Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@ibm.net) wrote: > > > > At work we use JFS on IBM RS/6k boxes and Advfs on Digital Unix. AFAIK, > > they are highly tolerant of the abuse you describe. > > Not necessarily. Open files are truncated to zero length on power loss or > RESET. Only the meta data is handled in a transaction oriented manner to > make sure the filesystem is consistent.
Ugh. I never thought that through completely. Only meta data is guaranteed?
Steve
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