From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: broken repo after power cut
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 06:59:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150621135903.GA18719@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5586B71D.2070407@nod.at>
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 03:07:41PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> To me it seems like git was creating a new object and got interrupted
> >> before fsync/fdatasync'ing it.
> >> As the object was referenced before syncing the data to disk the repo broke.
Git doesn't fsync by default, and because of that I've seen similar
data losses on ext4/xfs/btrfs.
You can set the core.fsyncobjectfiles to mitigate it, but even with
that I've seen corrupted index files.
Note that I've been mostly on old git versions from various distros,
so in case this was fixed recently I'll take everything I said back.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-21 13:59 UTC|newest]
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2015-06-21 13:07 ` broken repo after power cut Richard Weinberger
2015-06-21 13:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-06-21 14:08 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-06-22 0:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-06-22 11:19 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-06-22 12:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
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