Ext4 + barriers=1 + ssd + power loss while commiting to a git repo = broken repo?

Andreas Schwab schwab at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 09:04:41 UTC 2011


Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> writes:

> But the question remains - should enabled barriers protect against
> such data loss/breakage? Or I just had a big bad luck?

It could also be a bug in git, perhaps it needs to take more care to
create the ref file atomically.

Andreas.

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