Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 18:51:35 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:15:21PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Truncation is fine, as long as the resulting file only contains blocks
> that actually belonged to the file. stat() will then be able to
> detect that the file is partial, and that the transfer needs to be
> restarted or resumed.

ext3 makes that guarantee, and will continue to do so.

--Stephen

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