Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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.
I'm not not a filesystem expert but isn't it the problem ? Am I misinterpreting this blog discussion (especially comment #7) ? http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/ _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
