From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:38:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904261936011.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904251042490.3101@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> If you _don't_ do this patch, does 
> 
> 	[core]
> 		fsyncobjectfiles = true
> 
> hide the bug?

Yes.  On my EeePC with that stupid ufsd driver.

However, there is the other issue with Windows, so we still need half of 
my patch.

Junio, do you want me to throw out the core.unreliableHardlinks stuff, and 
only keep it as a Makefile option?

Ciao,
Dscho