Attachment 20114 Details for Bug 35539 – file.diff

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>Index: chapter.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /u/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.44
>diff -u -r1.44 chapter.sgml
>--- chapter.sgml	28 Feb 2002 22:38:15 -0000	1.44
>+++ chapter.sgml	4 Mar 2002 16:06:20 -0000
>@@ -923,13 +923,13 @@
> 	  their way out of the buffer cache onto the disk by the time
> 	  of the crash, &man.fsck.8; is able to recognize this and
> 	  repair the filesystem by setting the file length to
>-	  0).  Additionally, the implementation is clear and simple.
>+	  0.  Additionally, the implementation is clear and simple.
> 	  The disadvantage is that meta-data changes are slow.  An
> 	  <command>rm -r</command>, for instance, touches all the files in a
> 	  directory sequentially, but each directory
> 	  change (deletion of a file) will be written synchronously
> 	  to the disk.  This includes updates to the directory itself,
>-	  to the i-node table, and possibly to indirect blocks
>+	  to the inode table, and possibly to indirect blocks
> 	  allocated by the file.  Similar considerations apply for
> 	  unrolling large hierarchies (<command>tar -x</command>).</para>
> 
>@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@
>   	  will be left in an unpredictable state.  There is no opportunity
>   	  to examine the state of the file system when the system
>   	  comes up again; the data blocks of a file could already have
>-  	  been written to the disk while the updates of the i-node
>+  	  been written to the disk while the updates of the inode
>   	  table or the associated directory were not.  It is actually
>   	  impossible to implement a <command>fsck</command> which is
>   	  able to clean up the resulting chaos (because the necessary

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