9.04, ext4 and the open-write-close-rename debacle
Patrick Goetz
pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu
Wed May 6 16:14:47 UTC 2009
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I've been
unable to find a definitive answer to this question.
Probably everyone is familiar with the lengthy discussion that has
revolved around the first stable implementation of ext4, namely that all
data in a file can be zeroed out (including the original copy) in the
event of a system crash even for the presumably safe
open-write-close-rename paradigm; e.g.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781?comments=all
In his blog, Ted Ts'o comments that the 2.6.30 patch for this has been
backported by Canonical to 9.04 (I think somewhere in the comments to
this entry)
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/
Can anyone confirm that if I start formatting file servers with
9.04-based ext4 partitions users won't be faced with losing dozens of
recently saved files if the server happens to crash?
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