diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf
index 9209ed35bad68257fe995e958b7b9486fde337f8..24c1b7a4e228bf6022ea0bac70476a098473e6c7 100644
--- a/redis.conf
+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -529,6 +529,30 @@ no-appendfsync-on-rewrite no
 auto-aof-rewrite-percentage 100
 auto-aof-rewrite-min-size 64mb
 
+# An AOF file may be found to be truncated at the end during the Redis
+# startup process, when the AOF data gets loaded back into memory.
+# This may happen when the system where Redis is running
+# crashes, especially when an ext4 filesystem is mounted without the
+# data=ordered option (however this can't happen when Redis itself
+# crashes or aborts but the operating system still works correctly).
+#
+# Redis can either exit with an error when this happens, or load as much
+# data as possible (the default now) and start if the AOF file is found
+# to be truncated at the end. The following option controls this behavior.
+#
+# If aof-load-truncated is set to yes, a truncated AOF file is loaded and
+# the Redis server starts emitting a log to inform the user of the event.
+# Otherwise if the option is set to no, the server aborts with an error
+# and refuses to start. When the option is set to no, the user requires
+# to fix the AOF file using the "redis-check-aof" utility before to restart
+# the server.
+#
+# Note that if the AOF file will be found to be corrupted in the middle
+# the server will still exit with an error. This option only applies when
+# Redis will try to read more data from the AOF file but not enough bytes
+# will be found.
+aof-load-truncated yes
+
 ################################ LUA SCRIPTING  ###############################
 
 # Max execution time of a Lua script in milliseconds.
diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index ea0b77916699f9b4f5b822f4b8780ecc6d59b5d3..7bc3a07536c35daae5c263cce4d1118e6d297bf8 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -355,7 +355,12 @@ void loadServerConfigFromString(char *config) {
         } else if (!strcasecmp(argv[0],"aof-rewrite-incremental-fsync") &&
                    argc == 2)
         {
-            if ((server.aof_rewrite_incremental_fsync = yesnotoi(argv[1])) == -1) {
+            if ((server.aof_rewrite_incremental_fsync =
+                 yesnotoi(argv[1])) == -1) {
+                err = "argument must be 'yes' or 'no'"; goto loaderr;
+            }
+        } else if (!strcasecmp(argv[0],"aof-load-truncated") && argc == 2) {
+            if ((server.aof_load_truncated = yesnotoi(argv[1])) == -1) {
                 err = "argument must be 'yes' or 'no'"; goto loaderr;
             }
         } else if (!strcasecmp(argv[0],"requirepass") && argc == 2) {
@@ -673,6 +678,11 @@ void configSetCommand(redisClient *c) {
 
         if (yn == -1) goto badfmt;
         server.aof_rewrite_incremental_fsync = yn;
+    } else if (!strcasecmp(c->argv[2]->ptr,"aof-load-truncated")) {
+        int yn = yesnotoi(o->ptr);
+
+        if (yn == -1) goto badfmt;
+        server.aof_load_truncated = yn;
     } else if (!strcasecmp(c->argv[2]->ptr,"save")) {
         int vlen, j;
         sds *v = sdssplitlen(o->ptr,sdslen(o->ptr)," ",1,&vlen);
@@ -990,6 +1000,8 @@ void configGetCommand(redisClient *c) {
             server.repl_disable_tcp_nodelay);
     config_get_bool_field("aof-rewrite-incremental-fsync",
             server.aof_rewrite_incremental_fsync);
+    config_get_bool_field("aof-load-truncated",
+            server.aof_load_truncated);
 
     /* Everything we can't handle with macros follows. */
 
@@ -1752,6 +1764,7 @@ int rewriteConfig(char *path) {
     rewriteConfigClientoutputbufferlimitOption(state);
     rewriteConfigNumericalOption(state,"hz",server.hz,REDIS_DEFAULT_HZ);
     rewriteConfigYesNoOption(state,"aof-rewrite-incremental-fsync",server.aof_rewrite_incremental_fsync,REDIS_DEFAULT_AOF_REWRITE_INCREMENTAL_FSYNC);
+    rewriteConfigYesNoOption(state,"aof-load-truncated",server.aof_load_truncated,REDIS_DEFAULT_AOF_LOAD_TRUNCATED);
     if (server.sentinel_mode) rewriteConfigSentinelOption(state);
 
     /* Step 3: remove all the orphaned lines in the old file, that is, lines