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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-01-29 12:22:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2010-01-29 12:22:58 +0000 |
| commit | 07ffdc28629e537c3811f86b83a93655b73909ec (patch) | |
| tree | 36b10bdd8ab47d4d0098248206a87ed64b3deb28 /doc | |
| parent | ad529fb89fb34bea9762eccfc9c2ee6f1f2865c0 (diff) | |
* Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes to
/nix/var/nix/db.
* Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the
same thing as writeFile.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/conf-file.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml index 66df3edd5..2ee268097 100644 --- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml @@ -233,7 +233,17 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting> <filename>configure</filename> at build time.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> - + + + <varlistentry><term><literal>fsync-metadata</literal></term> + + <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, changes to the + Nix store metadata (in <filename>/nix/var/nix/db</filename>) are + synchronously flushed to disk. This improves robustness in case + of system crashes, but reduces performance. The default is + <literal>false</literal>.</para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> </variablelist> |