[linux-lvm] LVM onFly features

[Michael Loftis]

--On December 10, 2005 11:31:40 PM +0100 Marc-Jano Knopp 
<pub_ml_lvm at marc-jano.de> wrote:

> I thought the tails would be used to save the file blocks with less than
> $BLOCKSIZE? So, if ReiserFS lost the tails, it would be a very lucky
> coincidence, if none of the files were damaged. Or am I misguided again?
> :-}

Any tail can be packed if it doesn't match the block size.  In our case the 
corruption evidenced itself as files with the first part being ok, and the 
last part being all NULLs (0x0) up to the 'normal' file size.