If I had to guess, I would suspect that the application in question is
doing an fseek before every fwrite, and thus, this will happen for
both ext2 and ext3, and probably for a number of other filesystems,
but I've not tried this test on them.

Fuzzy

On 3/7/06, Brandon S. Darbro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I know when it will happen, my question is why?  I don't have this
> problem on Solaris and HP.  Is it a "feature" of the ext2 / ext3
> filesystem?  Or is will Linux do this on any of it's fs types?
>
> logrotate may be a useful solution for regular daemon log files, but
> it's also a problem with a users personal xsession log files as well.

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