2007/10/3, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au>: > > On 2007-Oct-03 15:21:15 +0200, Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen_at_gmail.com> > wrote: > >Also, I note that everytime I panic, my currently opened files are > reduced > >to 0 bytes. Is that expected? > > It depends, are you talking about files being read or only files being > written? If this is just affecting writes, then this is a side-effect > of the stdio buffering, together with the write-back nature of the UFS > buffer cache in conjunction with soft-updates: Data on disk is > typically about 30 seconds behind reality and the file contents will > always be behind the file itself. It is quite normal for recently > written files (or files currently being written) to be truncated on > disk following a crash. Yep, these are recently written files indeed. Usually the files I had open in my editor while it paniced, files that I save often. Oh well... I'm setting my hopes on this panic being resolved soon then :). Thanks for the explanation.Received on Wed Oct 03 2007 - 18:06:08 UTC
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