On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:17:00 +0200 Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> For future reference; you should never edit files in /etc/ directly. > If you want ot edit files in /etc or /usr/local/etc, first copy them > to a directory in your $HOME, put them under revision control and > then edit them and copy the edited files to /etc. That way you always > have a backup and you can even restore previous versions. I've > documented the procedure I use on my webpage; > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/unix/configfiles.html This failure, where files are truncated to 0 bytes after an unclean shutdown isn't the same way ext4 was truncating files when using editors which overwrite files in-place (as opposed to writing to a temporary file then renaming) is it? Does calling fsync on FreeBSD not ensure that even with SoftUpdates the data is on the disk before the editor has exited? -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
