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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:50:56 +0200
From:      CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, David Demelier
> <demelier.david@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> Why? SU+J is enabled by default. Isn't the purpose of a journaled file
>> system to ensure that any bad shutdown will protect data?
>
> As already stated, those measures are to preserve fs integrity eg meta data
> is in sync.  It doesn't ensure that all the outstanding writes are
> committed to disk in the event of a power outage.

Then why random files gets damaged as well even they are not
accessed/written on power loss? :-)

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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