[plug] Weird power glitch: lost data?

[Leon Brooks]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:33 pm, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 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?

You get a choice. Evidently, in this case, whatever it did was all that was 
necessary.

Cheers; Leon