From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 30875@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30875: Garbage collector may leave empty files
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:33:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi31f9sg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu4u46ue.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:20:41 -0400")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) 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’t changed 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’t mean to imply that Btrfs is flawed. It’s just that I’ve
never experienced that with ext[234].
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 11:21 bug#30875: Garbage collector may leave empty files Marius Bakke
2018-03-20 23:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-21 0:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-03-21 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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