[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Sync data after writing to the local db
Nagy Gabor
ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu
Sat Oct 30 09:01:09 EDT 2010
> This should hopefully reduce local db corruption issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
> lib/libalpm/be_local.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/libalpm/be_local.c b/lib/libalpm/be_local.c
> index 4574bd4..cb12abb 100644
> --- a/lib/libalpm/be_local.c
> +++ b/lib/libalpm/be_local.c
> @@ -841,6 +841,7 @@ int _alpm_local_db_write(pmdb_t *db, pmpkg_t
> *info, pmdbinfrq_t inforeq) fprintf(fp, "\n");
> }
>
> + fdatasync(fileno(fp));
> fclose(fp);
> fp = NULL;
> }
> @@ -869,6 +870,8 @@ int _alpm_local_db_write(pmdb_t *db, pmpkg_t
> *info, pmdbinfrq_t inforeq) }
> fprintf(fp, "\n");
> }
> +
> + fdatasync(fileno(fp));
> fclose(fp);
> fp = NULL;
> }
Wouldn't this cause a notable slow-down?
NG
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