Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f830IfD12373 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:18:41 -0700 Received: from smtp8.xs4all.nl (smtp8.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.134]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f830Icd12350 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:18:39 -0700 Received: from auto-nb1.xs4all.nl (qn-212-58-163-110.quicknet.nl [212.58.163.110]) by smtp8.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA20477; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 02:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010903021638.034ee5e0@pop.xs4all.nl> X-Sender: knuffie@pop.xs4all.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 02:17:53 +0200 To: "Gonyou, Austin" , XFS mailing list From: Seth Mos Subject: Re: System lock while accessing files causes file corruption In-Reply-To: <85063BBE668FD411944400D0B744267A88851B@AUSMAIL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk At 18:16 2-9-2001 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote: >Why is this? If I open a file, text/otherwise and the power actually fails, >(i turn it off), once in a while I get a corrupt file. Why is this? What >would happen if I was writing to some Oracle filesystems and this situation >occurred? Please advise. See the http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls A database would survive since most have their own buffering and transaction scheme. -- Seth Every program has two purposes one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't I use the last kind.