Have you only seen this with XFS, or with other filesystems, too? Will ext3 be more robust for power failures?
gracias... On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:03 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Glenn Burkhardt ha scritto: > > I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after > > rebooting. This time it was my ".bashrc" file. I might have just powered > > off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of > > shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my > > shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII > > null characters. > > > > I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then > > the file "/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc" had been similiarly trashed - full > > of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. > > > > I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of > > years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to > > ext3 ?? > > I've seen this many times (xfs too). Don't know the cause (apart from > power failure/reset after a crash), but I'd like to. > > Bye
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