From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: "Mathieu Othacehe" <othacehe@gnu.org>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
59784@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59784: [version 1.4.0rc1] Retrying a failed install fails
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:17:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yeb85nd.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <229fab0a-644d-a69a-356e-0c5f074d978a@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:55:30 +0100")
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
> So, I'm nominally 'on hiatus', but I noticed this mail, and noticed
> you copied a file (and fsync'ed it), but forgot to fsync the directory
> it was copied to -- from what I've read (but I don't recall the
> source), fsyncing the contents of the file isn't enough, you also need
> to fsync the directory such that the new file entry is in the
> directory after crashing.
Ohh indeed! The Linux manpage on fsync confirms it. That invalidates
my fsync testing. Which was on a codepath that, as Ludo found out, did
not even run. But I will remember to fsync the directory in the future.
Thank you very much Maxime!
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-02 17:52 bug#59784: [version 1.4.0rc1] Retrying a failed install fails pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-09 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-09 11:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-10 8:39 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-13 9:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-13 9:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-13 22:22 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-13 23:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-14 13:36 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-14 21:47 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-14 23:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-15 17:46 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-15 20:44 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-16 16:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 20:28 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-17 11:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-17 19:36 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-17 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-17 19:27 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-17 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-18 0:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 13:55 ` Maxime Devos
2022-12-16 20:17 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2022-12-18 16:41 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-12 12:07 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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