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And yet again here we areAnd yet again here we arePosted Jan 5, 2011 12:03 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: And yet again here we are by man_ls Parent article: Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica)
>What XFS did (and I experienced first hand) was add some uninitialized sectors to the file, and afterwards write the new content to the sectors. This behavior is apparently allowed by POSIX, and yet extremely annoying to users, who moved to other filesystems in droves.
To be fair there was more wrong with XFS than that - it could also corrupt *entirely unrelated* files. Personally I stopped using it when a power cut trashed /etc/passwd (and presumably a load of other files that were less obvious) despite nothing having it open at the time.
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