Comment 59 for bug 317781

@Theo:

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the addition info and the time you've spent on the patches to minimize the impact.

I, and several of the other people here, are probably just feeling more pain than the average data center ever would see; A lot of us are alpha-testing an alpha operating system, and other are running daily SVNs of Wine with proprietary video drivers.... so crashes and hard resets aren't really unusual at this point. :)

Unfortunately for me, they'll probably never be strangers - because I like to test bleeding edge stuff. Hopefully your patches make the truncation less evident for me. If not, I'll take your suggest and go back to Ext3 or some other FS that's better suited to what I'm doing.

I think I'll take what I've learned here, do some additional testing, and suggest that the people working on BOINC change the way they rewrite their client_state files - because the way they're doing it now makes both the current *and* the _prev version prone to truncation and hours of lost work.