On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:42:06 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:

> Although Neil may have a point when he says that an unclean shutdown
> could have corrupted things. I was under the impression that with a
> journaling file system this should be safe, but I do not know much bout
> this.

Journalling normally only protects the filesystem metadata, file contents
can be affected. Look at that lovely XFS bug of old that filled files
with zeros on a power outage, wile keeping the filesystem intact :(


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before.

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