Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Volkan YAZICI put forth on 10/21/2010 5:04 AM: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? >>> Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4cc060b6.9060...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >[snip] > >> BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; > >Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable "die *now*". Sorry, there is a missing "not" there. My point was

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > XFS is the not only file system where power failure can result in a > truncated file. Even ext3 can have that issue, though it is less > likely. > > However, if the application follows a certain procedure when > re-writing files, it will not

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable "die *now*". Or are you confusing it with "kill -TERM", which *does* allow cleanup? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To U

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87fwvzuaec@alamut.ozu.edu.tr>, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the >>> plug? Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread godo
do you have ~/.opera/bookmarks.adr and if yes is it empty? Yes, and yes, it is empty. Regards. Sorry I hoped that maybe Opera can open it but that bookmarks are still here. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread godo
do you have ~/.opera/bookmarks.adr and if yes is it empty? Yes, and yes, it is empty. Regards. Sorry I hoped that maybe Opera can open it but that bookmarks are still here. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, godo writes: > On 10/21/2010 12:04 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> Another scenario, same failure. I have a squeeze installed notebook and >> having troubles with X. It crashes for some driver specific reasons and >> I need to hard-reset the notebook. 1-2 times I found WindowMaker

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread godo
On 10/21/2010 12:04 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the filesystem