Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5P6UqnC028521 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:30:52 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5P6UqJg028520 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:30:52 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5P6UknC028492 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:30:47 -0700 Received: from auto-nb1.xs4all.nl (213-84-127-28.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.127.28]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g5P6Y302039863; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:34:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020625083147.032322f0@pop.xs4all.nl> X-Sender: knuffie@pop.xs4all.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:33:56 +0200 To: Harrison Xing From: Seth Mos Subject: Re: Open file corruption? Cc: In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020622150124.02dbf5c0@pop.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk At 12:28 25-6-2002 +0800, Harrison Xing wrote: >Thanks for your suggestion. >My concern is that whether my current XFS 1.0.1 release may >lose data for files opened as read-only. Someone has seen once or twice that >"fstab" is corrupted after power off. I know XFS 1.1 has made >lots of enhancements, is it ever possible this also happens >with XFS 1.1? A lot has changed since then. It might behave very different. The delete path has been made asynchronous but all of that should not make read only files get corrupted. Install a newer version and test again. Cheers -- Seth It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.