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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
