Kae Verens wrote:
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>> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
>>>>>>> Anyway, I'm seeing files which I edit and change regressing back,
>>> all by themselves to previous versions of the file.
>>> Thus I edit the file, save, close, and do anything (md5sum, copy,
>>> wc, whatever) with the file, and it works fine.
>>> Then I come back in 20 minutes, and again try to use the file (run
>>> md5sum, whatever) and it fails,
>>> I check why and the file I had just updated is back to its original
>>> file!!
>>>>> Does the datestamp change? Does it go forward or backward?
>>>> probably a silly question, but are the files held on a medium such as
> Flash or Floppy? the reason I ask is that those file systems are
> asynchronous and might not be committed to the medium immediately, so a
> system crash might have uncommitted edits.
Or indeed RAID, esp RAID5 can do this... Or Mad Filesystem Cache SW.
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Mike
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