From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:40:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904261940170.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vhc0cw6w8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> 
> > On Samstag, 25. April 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> If you _don't_ do this patch, does
> >>
> >> 	[core]
> >> 		fsyncobjectfiles = true
> >>
> >> hide the bug?
> >
> > Most likely not because our fsync() on Windows is a noop :(
> 
> Actually, the reason I CC'ed Linus (and I also was interested in the
> platform bug itself) was because I think Dscho is accessing the NTFS
> partition from the Linux side.

Yep, correct.

Ciao,
Dscho