@Jamin,

We'd have to see how gaim is rewriting the application file.  If it is
doing open/truncate/write/close, there will always be the chance that
the file would be lost if you crash right after the truncate.   This is
true with both ext3 and ext4.   With the workaround, the chances of
losing the file with ext4 when the application tries to do the
fundamentally broken replace-via-truncate are the same as with ext3.
We can't do better than that.

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