Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:57:02AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> For instance, some editors don't perform fsync-then-rename, but simply
> truncate the file when saving (because they want to preserve hard
> links).  With XFS, this tends to cause null bytes on crashes.  Since
> ext3 has got a much larger install base, this would result in lots of
> bug reports, I fear.

XFS has recently been changed to only updated the on-disk i_size after
data writeback has finished to get rid of this irritation.

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