[plug] Weird power glitch: lost data?

Grahame Bowland grahame at azale.net
Thu Oct 17 22:33:55 WST 2002


On Thursday 17 October 2002 17:24, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Thursday 17 October 2002 03:29 pm, James Bromberger wrote:
> > So ask yourself; if you computr just shut down unexpectedly, how much
> > would you pay to get that data back?
>
> In this case, nothing. I was in the middle of a vi edit on an ext3
> filesystem and didn't lose a keystroke on the replay. Impressed? I want it
> to bear my children! (-:

I thought ext3 didn't journal the actual data, it just journalled fileystem 
metadata?
 
-grahame





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