On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, at 05:58 PM, Tim Connors wrote: > > On 17 August 2017 1:37:24 pm AEST, Tim Connors via luv-main > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Both XFS and btrfs enthusiastically like to silently throw any data > > >written > > >in the past 5 days on the floor when there's a power failure/kernel > > >panic, > > >so there's that commonality. > > > > See O_PONIES. Applications not using the API correctly to safely store data > > to disk are the problem. > > > > There's mitigation in XFS for a number of years now. > > Yes I know all about libeatmydata, but you'll agree the race condition > doesn't extend to 5 days after close(), right?
It could, it entirely depends on what you have configured... you can make the kernel *very* unwilling to write things back to disk. 5 days sounds long, and I haven't heard of anything *that* long, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could configure the kernel and run workloads in a way that it could happen.. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
