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Re: Misterious warning about file system boundaries [It's a bug, not a mystery.]

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 10, 2010, 10:52 UTC
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:36, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

> I guess we need --I-really-mean-it-refresh.
>
> In fact, not even after recompiling with USE_STDEV=y that
> --really-refresh helps which stomps me.But what do I know.

The real problem here is the assumption in 52b98a7 that stat's st_dev will stay the same for a given device, clearly that's not the case on Linux if you reboot your machine.

Is there some way of working around that?
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  1. Michael J GruberJun 9, 2010
  2. Andreas EricssonJun 10, 2010
  3. Michael J GruberJun 10, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundJun 10, 2010
  5. Michael J GruberJun 10, 2010
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 10, 2010
  7. Jeff KingJun 10, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2010
  9. Jeff KingJun 12, 2010

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