Dave Chinner wrote:
I agree that it is very wrong, but it's a known problem with writebackThank you for the pointer.
mode in ext3:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/818044/focus=819977
More info as to how this change came about and the proposed but not
yet realised fixes:
http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/
Indeed, most Linux boxes are used by single user.
But implicitly importing other deleted file's data is still annoying
even if the box is used by only one user.
When I was trying to identify the steps to reproduce, I got ./a.out replaced
by the deleted .bash_history due to power failure. I executed ./a.out as root
without knowing that the file contains deleted .bash_history , and many
commands listed in deleted .bash_history are executed as root.
I thought my box was cracked and trojaned. :-(