Re: [mail] Re: Windows Build System

From: Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be>
To: Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [mail] Re: Windows Build System
Date: 2003-01-30 23:09:05
Message-ID: 20030130230905.GA537@ping.be
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:39:59PM -0800, Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> With this I agree, but before you start thinking that Windows is the
> only OS that qualifies, consider this: I've run the "pull the plug"
> test under early Linux 2.4 kernels running with ReiserFS. I'd start a
> make of a large project, pull the power, bring the system back up, and
> restart the build. And the end result was that some of the files
> files in the build directory were corrupted, such that the build could
> not continue.

Afaik, ReiserFS does not guarantee data consistency, only meta
data. As in, the file system itself will be consistent, and an
fsck shouldn't find a problem.

Kurt

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