[haiku-development] Re: Filesystem corruption and Alpha-1

  • From: Michael Weirauch <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:30:05 +0200

2009/6/24 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Michael Weirauch <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> None of which I know of. Using Haiku too unfrequent, though. What I
>> "notice"
>> if fs-corruption after freezes. That is likely "normal", though.
>
> Actually, it's not. Files might be gone or have corrupted contents
> after a freeze, blocks might be left allocated that should have been
> freed, but the file system itself should always manage a sane state
> even after a crash.
>
> Bye,
>   Axel.

You are right. Sorry for the bad wording. It is actually file content corruption
or missing files which have been generated and not yet synced
to disk before crash as you say.

Michael

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