Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:17:20 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Ian Freislich <if@hetzner.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openssh no longer compiles (as part of make world) Message-ID: <XFMail.20040123091720.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <E1Ak08g-0009ow-00@hetzner.co.za>
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On 23-Jan-2004 Ian Freislich wrote: > I'm sorry that I didn't keep the ,v file that was corrupted. Don't worry. Hardly anybody does. > I'm > not sure that the OS buffers explain this because the machine had > been rebooted several times during the period that cvsup had not > refetched the corrupted file. Once the file has been written out to disk, the OS buffers aren't a factor any more. At that point, the data is corrupted on disk. But the metadata indicates that the file is OK. If the metadata says the file is up-to-date then CVSup won't update it. It would be waaaay too time-consuming to scan each entire file on every update run, so that is skipped if the metadata indicates the file is up-to-date. All file update packages operate that way. John
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