Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:44:52AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> I can say, that nulls in files are most common at the end of
> (sys)log files filing up to the next block boundary.

Ideally syslog would rewind back past an nulls when it opens files.

> ls -s compared with ls -l should make that visible?

No, unwritten extents has an on-disk place, just the data isn't
written.  I'm not sure if there is an easy way to tell if an extent is
unritten or not, I guess you could use xfs_bmap -p if that's working
right for you.


  --cw

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