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bug#30875: Garbage collector may leave empty files
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Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#30875: Garbage collector may leave empty files |
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Date: |
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:33:51 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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>> 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? :-)
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> 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’.