[OpenAFS-devel] AFS + GFS = crazy?

Mitch Collinsworth mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:14:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, John Hascall wrote:

>   + I don't see that GFS prevents against mistakenly overwriting
>     (in-place) your data with garbage (but you have the AFS
>     protection of the nightly .backup volume of course).

But does GFS really overwrite in place?  I thought I remembered it
just keeps creating new files.  So an overwrite is really just a
create and a rename.

-Mitch