Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > [I didn't find an ideal message to reply to in this thread, but this > seemed to probably be the best] > > Just an update on this since I went back and looked at this thread, > GitLab about ~1yr ago turned on core.fsyncObjectFiles=true by > default. > > The reason is detailed in [1], tl;dr: empty loose object file issue on > ext4 allegedly caused by a lack of core.fsyncObjectFiles=true, but I > didn't do any root cause analysis. Just noting it here for for future > reference. > > 1. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/51680#note_180508774 Thanks for bringing the original discussion back. I do recall the discussion and the list of issues to think about raised by Peff back then in [2] is still relevant. 2. https://public-inbox.org/git/20180117205509.GA14828@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/