[Pan-users] Re: Re: Is there anything like an undelete file?

[Duncan]

Per Hedeland posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:52:51 +0200:

> No, killing a user process, with -9 or otherwise, cannot cause file system
> corruption on any Unix/Linux file system - it is the kernel's job to
> ensure file system integrity, and so the only risk of corruption is when
> the kernel crashes (or has a bug, or power is lost, etc).
> 
> It may well cause corruption to file *contents* though, which won't be
> handled by even a journalled file system, nor noticed or fixed by fsck and
> friends.

Correction noted.  Thanks /very/ much!  I appreciate having incorrect
understandings/assumptions brought to my attention, so I can note the
correction.

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