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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:22:25 -0400
From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@yahoo.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:06:01PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> 	ln tmp/x peek/x

In fact, make that

	ln tmp/x peek/x
			<- MTA does the fsync()
	less peek/x
			<- MTA closes the file.
	rm peek/x
		     (peek gets written asynchronously to disk)
	*CRASH*
                           
Then we are back to "lost+found", nothing gained.

Regards,

   Bill Rugolsky