From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 17:44:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070509224423.GL11115@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46424896.8080506@goop.org>
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:17:58PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >> Mercurial uses a strictly append-only model for updating its repo files,
> >> but it looks like maybe an append operation didn't stick.
> >>
> >
> > (Unless you're using the mq extension, which regularly truncates
> > files. But you're definitely the first person to run into this sort of
> > thing in any case.)
> >
>
> Which I am, extensively, but not on the repo that got damaged. That's
> why I was wondering about the nlink issues. If I qpop a bunch of
> patches after just pushing them, won't it simply truncate the file?
Yep. But it will break links before doing that. Basically all opens go
through a function that breaks links.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 21:09 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 21:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 22:44 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-05-09 22:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 23:16 ` David Chinner
2007-05-09 23:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 0:01 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 0:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 0:49 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 0:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 1:26 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 14:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 15:38 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-12 11:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 12:46 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 20:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:13 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 21:23 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-10 21:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:41 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:51 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 22:58 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:27 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-11 0:32 ` David Chinner
2007-05-11 14:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-12 7:56 ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 11:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 13:51 ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 14:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-15 0:14 ` David Chinner
2007-05-15 19:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:07 ` David Chinner
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