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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#30875: Garbage collector may leave empty files
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:33:51 +0100
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

>> Are we sure this is a Guix issue and not a disk or file system
>> corruption issue?  The relevant code in guix-daemon hasn=E2=80=99t chang=
ed in
>> ages.
>>
>> What file system are you using?  Btrfs?  :-)
>
> The ext[234] filesystems are well known for leaving zero-length files
> around after a crash.  So far, I've never seen Btrfs do that, and I
> wouldn't expect it to based on its design.  That's partly why I switched
> to it.

Sorry, I didn=E2=80=99t mean to imply that Btrfs is flawed.  It=E2=80=99s j=
ust that I=E2=80=99ve
never experienced that with ext[234].

Ludo=E2=80=99.