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Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity |
Date: |
04 May 2002 13:22:58 -0700 |
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Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:
> I think that for compilation we don't need to synchronize everything
> to be sure the filesystem the compilation happens on has an
> inconsistent. It doesn't really matter if you lose some objects
> files. Maybe it would be a nice thing to provide this as an option.
The bugs that happen are *not* merely that you lose occasional object
files. You can get arbitrary corruption.
In any case, we do not implement bugs deliberately. We can decide to
have a totally asynchronous unsafe mode, which is no worse than just
ignoring this particular issue.
Thomas
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, (continued)
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Niels Möller, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity,
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <=
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/05/04
- Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/04