[Bug 453579] Re: in-place corruption of large files *without fsck or reboot* reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4

clarious clarious at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 23:02:25 UTC 2009


I don't know if this is related or not: from a conversation I had
before, ext4 divide the files into chunks with power of two size to
prevent long term free space fragmentation, so a 800 MB files would be
written as a 512mb chunk, then 256mb chunk and so on...

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in-place corruption of large files *without fsck or reboot* reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453579
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