"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Good. That's pretty much what I assumed. (This assumption also allows
the connection to be resumed, rather than restarted, but there are other
reasons you may not want to do that. rsync makes that a non-issue
anyway.)
-hpa
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