From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason McMullan Subject: Re: "failed to read delta base object at..." Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:01:58 -0400 Message-ID: <48B46F46.9090302@gmail.com> References: <20080825164602.GA2213@fieldses.org> <20080825213104.GI2213@fieldses.org> <20080825221321.GL2213@fieldses.org> <48B46B04.70102@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: bfields@fieldses.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 23:03:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KY5h5-0000ZU-TP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:03:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751364AbYHZVCK convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751285AbYHZVCJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:09 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56020 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751250AbYHZVCH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:07 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KY5fx-0006ub-W4 for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:02:06 +0000 Received: from 209.195.169.219 ([209.195.169.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:02:05 +0000 Received: from jason.mcmullan by 209.195.169.219 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:02:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.195.169.219 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: <48B46B04.70102@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jason McMullan wrote: >=20 > Was this pack created on a journaled file system? Reiserfs? Ext3? >=20 > If there's journal corruption in a commonly used filesystem, > That Would Be Bad. In private mail, it was indicated that this was an ext3 with the data=3Dwriteback option. From mount(1), man page, ext3 section: writeback Data ordering is not preserved - data may be written into the main file system after its metadata has been commit=E2=80=90 ted to the journal. This is rumoured to be the highest- throughput option. It guarantees internal file system integrity, however it can allow old data to appear in files after a crash and journal recovery. All bets are off when data=3Dwriteback. - Jason McMullan