Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k76KkoDW031390 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:46:51 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c39so384270pyd for ; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:46:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jB2qwgT0Ic4I7qqL8PIHckIo3oFhqxLJZD9/V4B8sRtUK/+Vlr2Fgko892aajOZc60db/POnnz2R5fuE2YKtXUFIN4W9yXn6gFdMIiN92WKDrcuDcI5x37zN+eN8FNJajraPHsbIj7SY17FxfLriUpV9yjKTgZSoChZP+oXpyxI= Received: by 10.35.22.17 with SMTP id z17mr10362182pyi; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.73.13 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <83d59530608061232r21feab01j456c7d1fec742958@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 20:32:49 +0100 From: "Jeff Briggs" To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: XFS null files MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-archive-position: 8578 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: ephemeral.elusive@gmail.com Precedence: bulk X-list: xfs Content-Length: 366 Lines: 13 Hello. I've just lost data to XFS, with the files full of nulls. I've found posts dating back over two years about such data losses. I'm using linux 2.6.17 with xfsprogs 2.8.10. emacs claims to fsync on write, yet still I lost data, the faq suggests I should not have if this is so? Is this likely to be fixed soon, or should I switch file system? Many thanks.