Justin Piszcz:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Does XFS still overwrite existing files with zeros, when those
> > files were open for write at the time of unclean shutdown? This
> I believe this was fixed in an early 2.6.2x release, cc'ing xfs mailing
> list to confirm.
>
> > 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.
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Wietse
