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    SubjectRe: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?
    On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:33:34PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

    > Security. You don't want old contents of /etc/shadow appear in
    > random files after a crash.

    If we had a different log format we could determine if the blocks were
    newly allocated and avoid zeroing that for existing files, we could
    even do the code to aggregate transactions which would be *really*
    nice for some things. Lots of work though.


    --cw
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