Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:22:09 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again. |
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Hi,
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > /etc/hosts (or anywhere). As a tesult, startx hung starting X server; it was > > not possible to switch to alpha console or kill X server. I pressed reset > > and after reboot looked into /var/log/XFree86*log - and there were a bunch > > of ^@ there.
> this is the nature of metadata journaling filesystems.
Umm, no, it isn't. Ext3 would never allow that to happen in ordered metadata-journaling mode, and Chris Mason is already working to remove that window in reiserfs. It is by no means a necessary consequence of doing metadata-only journaling.
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