Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> writes: > Hiza, > > On 8 April 2025 16:48:37 UTC, Rutherther <ruthert...@ditigal.xyz> wrote: >>But on the other hand it's not responsibility of Guix to actually make >>sure the files are written to the disk itself. It just makes sure what >>currently is on the filesystem is fine. > > Anecdotally, empty store files happen a surprising lot. Surprising to me, > anyway. Not only on btrfs. > > It's been ages since I've used anything but Guix, but is this failure mode > really as common with other package manglers? Does anyone have anecdata to > that effect?
I would expect this behavior with Guix much more commonly as it tends to create a lot of new files. > > (Then again, I can't remember this ever happening to me, and that's on bloody > bcachefs, which corrupted my store database monthly for about the first year.) > >>If filesystem -> disk sync fails >>somewhere, that's an issue. > > Absolutely. > > > > Kind regards, > > T G-R > > Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
