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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Neeraj Singh <nksingh85@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
	"Neeraj K. Singh" <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs: sync loose refs to disk before committing them
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 05:04:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYTzmWzAaqvGFu/v@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211105.865yt7hu7x.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 09:35:24AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> So if we're in the middle of a transaction and have created and written
> the lockfile we might only notice that the disk has is full when we do
> the fsync().
> 
> In that case we'll (or should, I didn't check just now) unroll the ref
> transaction, and delete the *.lock files we created, which presumably
> will succeed in that scenario.
> 
> So calling die() at this level is the difference between leaving the
> repo in an inconsistent state due to a disk error, and something like
> "git fetch --atomic" gracefully failing.

We should rollback the lockfiles even if we call die(), via the atexit()
handler. Ditto if we receive a fatal signal.

(But I completely agree that if we have the opportunity to just pass the
error up the stack, we should do so).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-05  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-04 12:38 [PATCH] refs: sync loose refs to disk before committing them Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-04 13:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-04 14:51   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-04 21:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-04 22:36     ` Neeraj Singh
2021-11-05  1:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-05  6:36         ` Jeff King
2021-11-05  8:35       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-05  9:04         ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-11-05  7:07 ` Jeff King
2021-11-05  7:17   ` Jeff King
2021-11-05  9:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-05  9:22       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-05  9:34       ` Jeff King
2021-11-09 11:25         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-10  8:36           ` Jeff King
2021-11-10  9:16             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-10 11:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-10 11:40   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] wrapper: handle EINTR in `git_fsync()` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-10 14:33     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-10 14:39     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-10 11:40   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] wrapper: provide function to sync directories Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-10 14:40     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-10 11:41   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] refs: add configuration to enable flushing of refs Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-10 14:49     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-10 19:15       ` Neeraj Singh
2021-11-10 20:23         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-11  0:03           ` Neeraj Singh
2021-11-11 12:14           ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-11 12:06       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-11-11  0:18     ` Neeraj Singh
2021-11-10 14:44   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] refs: sync loose refs to disk before committing them Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-10 20:45   ` Jeff King
2021-11-11 11:47     ` Patrick Steinhardt

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