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Message-ID: <20100115200136.GD1345@ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:36 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>, david@...morbit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.30 and later] file corruption on ext3 filesystem. Hi! >>> http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/ >>> >> Thank you for the pointer. >> >> Indeed, most Linux boxes are used by single user. >> But implicitly importing other deleted file's data is still annoying >> even if the box is used by only one user. >> >> When I was trying to identify the steps to reproduce, I got ./a.out replaced >> by the deleted .bash_history due to power failure. I executed ./a.out as root >> without knowing that the file contains deleted .bash_history , and many >> commands listed in deleted .bash_history are executed as root. >> I thought my box was cracked and trojaned. :-( > > Fedora and some other distributions changed the default back to data > ordered mode in order to avoid exactly this kind of mess. Even if you > are on a single user system, this behavior is certainly unexpected for > most users :-) Also there's config option to get back the old behaviour. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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