Re: block allocation in ext2fs

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 08:06:14 EST


Hi,

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:21:54PM +0300, Benhanokh Gabriel wrote:

> No process will ever get to read those blocks.

No? What is to prevent a process from reading a block which has been
allocated but not written? There is nothing in the ext2 filesystem
format which lets you distinguish between written and unwritten blocks:
all you can tell is if a block is allocated or not.

--Stephen

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