On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:09:13PM +0100, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Ext2 sets a dtime field in the inode if the file is meant to be deleted.
> 
> Yeah, but what if the change didn't get into the disk (since it's
> written asynchronously, this might happen quite frequently).

And some other metadata was written before ?
You get "duplicate blocks". Now how do you know which file is correct ?
I've seen this many times on linux boxes.

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