On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:27:59PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > > cause a file to be removed, or removed right away. This matters when > > you are out of disk space, and so perhaps I am unsympathetic because I > > have never been out of disk space. Otherwise, I think it doesn't really > > matter, and offers a lot of benefits. > > In addition, the first few messages in the exchange indicated to me that the > real culprit was a buggy file system or other system component, because he > claimed he had to fsck... not merely remount... the file system to recover > the space.
Oh, I thought this too, but forgot about it as I read through the whole tree. A buggy filesystem is pretty awful. Given that it's redhat, I bet it's ext3, which essentially is the same as ext2, and thus is around 13 years old at this point. A 13 year old filesystem that munges itself: awesome. -josh
