On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:42:27 +0200 Rodolphe Rocca <[email protected]> wrote: > After a reboot and a regular fsck, I found out that the > /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>/SLOT was empty (size 0) for a few > packages that paludis was installing during the upgrade phase. > > This issue looks very much like the famous "ext4, delayed allocation > and zero file length" issue. > I've read many things about the subject, most of them written by the > author of ext4, Theodore T'so. > > What I've read from Theodore and the fact that the corruption always > happen on the same file (SLOT) makes me think that there may be an > issue in paludis. > > Maybe a forgotten fsync after writing the SLOT file ?
No, it's unrelated. We don't fsync anything, at all. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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