Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:40:53 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? |
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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.
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