From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:07:57 GMT
Subject: Re: reftable: new ref storage format
Message-ID: <4dbe06d0-9a65-7bf5-eb82-6371d9ad7e9b@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170714200830.iks5drqu72cypkny@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 14.07.2017 um 22:08 schrieb Jeff King:
> The implementation on this doesn't seem overly complex. My main concerns
> are what we're asking from the filesystem in terms of atomicity, and
> what possible races there are.

One of the failure modes is that on Windows a file cannot be deleted 
while it is open in any process. It can happen that a compacting updater 
wants to remove a reftable file that is still open in a reader.

-- Hannes