Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:14:14
Message-Id: 20110711215653.538589c9@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. by Alex Schuster
1 On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:42:06 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
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3 > Although Neil may have a point when he says that an unclean shutdown
4 > could have corrupted things. I was under the impression that with a
5 > journaling file system this should be safe, but I do not know much bout
6 > this.
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8 Journalling normally only protects the filesystem metadata, file contents
9 can be affected. Look at that lovely XFS bug of old that filled files
10 with zeros on a power outage, wile keeping the filesystem intact :(
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before.

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