From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: repo consistency under crashes and power failures?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E4E570.1060403@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmiy597iujc.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
Am 7/15/2013 19:48, schrieb Greg Troxel:
> Clearly there is the possibility of creating a corrupt repository when
> receiving objects and updating refs, if a crash or power failure causes
> data not to get written to disk but that data is pointed to. Journaling
> mitigates this, but I'd argue that programs should function safely with
> only the guarantees from POSIX.
Even under POSIX, "guarantees" and "crash/power failure" do not mesh well.
This has been under dispute recently, for example:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/7456/focus=7487
The best we can achieve with POSIX alone is "to make bad consequences less
likely".
Jonathan already mentioned the knob that allows you to trade performance
for more safety.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-15 17:48 repo consistency under crashes and power failures? Greg Troxel
2013-07-15 17:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-07-16 6:17 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-07-27 3:10 ` Jeff King
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