Hello,
talking with the btrfs people, they are specially aware of a problem related to
writing files to disk properly.
I think 'nix' does not 'fsync' on every file it writes to the store; does it? in
non-chroot, it even isn't nix who puts the files in the store, so...
Without fsync, there is no
On 03/21/2012 03:11 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
So, user tools have to be written properly, so they fsync data before
'mv'.
From Nix's standpoint, isn't the real requirement 'fsync before
updating the database'? Is there some way for Nix to say Make sure every
file in this directory is
You're asking to do fsync before registering store paths valid,
correct?
If its not done yet it makes much sense to me.
Marc Weber
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:21:46PM +0100, Marc Weber wrote:
You're asking to do fsync before registering store paths valid,
correct?
If its not done yet it makes much sense to me.
Well, I think there are only two available operations: fsync(int fd) and sync().
One is much faster and less
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
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:58:43PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:39:20PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:21:46PM +0100, Marc Weber wrote:
You're asking to do fsync before registering store paths valid,
correct?
If
