On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Wietse Venema wrote:
I believe this was fixed in an early 2.6.2x release, cc'ing xfs mailing list to confirm.Does XFS still overwrite existing files with zeros, when those files were open for write at the time of unclean shutdown? This
would violate a basic requirement of Postfix (don't lose data after fsync). Postfix updates existing files all the time: it updates queue files as it marks recipients as done, and it updates mailbox files as it appends mail.
