Interesting XFS note

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:44:58 PDT 2004


Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Yes, a box on XFS comes RIGHT UP after a hard
> shutdown, but things are and will be missing.
> 

Would any system save unsaved material if you pulled the plug? I'm 
surprised you'd end up with a partially corrupted file. Don't these 
journaling systems step back to a stable time before the power was lost? 
(I'm probably confused about journaling)


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Ken Moffat
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