Hi, On Tue, 08 Apr 2025 at 12:20, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>But on the other hand it's not responsibility of Guix to actually make >>>sure the files are written to the disk itself. It just makes sure what >>>currently is on the filesystem is fine. [...] > I know in Debian dpkg makes fsync calls afer many operations... > > If guix does not already call fsync or related system calls ... maybe it > should? If it already does, maybe there are more places where it should > call fsync? There will certainly be a performance hit, as a tradeoff for > increased reliability... it would not fundamentally solve the problem, > but it might significantly reduce the risks. Well, I do not know if it is relevant but it rings this bell [1]. Somehow, it’s hard to determine when or where Guix should call fsync. Cheers, simon 1: [bug#58035] sync-before-registering is false, possibly the cause of empty files in the store zimoun <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:03:28 +0200 id:[email protected] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58035 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected] https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]
