Excerpts from Lluís Batlle i Rossell's message of Wed Mar 21 20:39:20 +0100 2012: > Well, I think there are only two available operations: fsync(int fd) and > sync(). > One is much faster and less intrusive than the other. But what to do, when it > isn't nix that writes the files, and thus, nix has not the handles open? > Maybe sync() is the quick solution? Or should nix open all files and fsync > them? Thinking about it again I feel we don't want broken stores ever.
Thus at the very least the hashes nix-store --verify --check-contents uses must be synced. Are they contained in sqlite? Then there should be no (big) problem. Then you ended up with a broken store - but you were still able to run an older revision, right? Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
