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Story: Possible data loss in Ext4Total Replies: 3
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Sander_Marechal

Mar 12, 2009
5:49 AM EDT 		This looks like the issue Ted Ts'o warned about on FOSDEM: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/lf/view/116126/#ext4
gus3

Mar 12, 2009
11:14 AM EDT 		Gleaning from the Slashdot comments, the headline is misleading. The problem is a collision of ext4's longer commit interval, and KDE's practice of deleting config files before re-writing them on logout.
dinotrac

Mar 12, 2009
11:47 AM EDT 		Not a bug, but you have to wonder about the wisdom of avoiding underlying performance improvement -- with the work and potential for compatibility issues and bugs that implies -- by stretching the commit interval too much.
gus3

Mar 14, 2009
11:30 PM EDT 		For a more detailed follow-up, here is an essay from Ted T'so:

http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-an...

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