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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:49:22 +0100
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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Aucoin wrote:

>> From: Rene Herman [mailto:rene.herman@gmail.com] ftruncate there
>> and some similarity to a problem I once experienced
> 
> I can't honestly say I completely grasp the fundamentals of the issue
> you experienced but we are using ext3 with data=journal

Rereading I see ext3 isn't involved at all but perhaps the ftruncate 
does something similar here as it did on ext3? Andrew? It's probably 
best to igniore me, I also never quite understood what the problem on 
ext3 was. Just thought I'd share the hunch anyway...

Rene.

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