On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 01:06:50PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > 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. All the modern Linux file systems first write the data, and then only write the metadata after the data write has finished. So your data might have been partially or fully on disk, but until the transaction to commit the size change and/or extent state change you're not going to be able to read it back.
