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ext4 and data lossext4 and data lossPosted Mar 14, 2009 1:23 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: ext4 and data loss by foom Parent article: ext4 and data loss
No, because rename() is only changing the metadata. The data of the file itself has not been changed by that call.
If you were to write new data to the file and THEN call rename, a crash right afterwards might mean that the updates were not saved. But the only way you could lose the file's original data here is if you opened it with O_TRUNC, which is really stupid if you don't fsync() immediately after closing.
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