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Deduplication breaks store item repair

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From: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Deduplication breaks store item repair
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:07:01 +0200

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Hi,

I’ve been having issues with the filesystem that holds /gnu/store
recently, causing corrupted/broken files. When trying to repair these
broken files with `guix gc --verify=repair,contents` it properly detects
that store items’ hashes do not match the ones recorded in the database
and redownloads/rebuilds them. However, the corrupted store items are
never actually repaired – not by `guix gc` and not by `guix build
--repair`. Attached is a testcase showing that deduplication is the
problem, because repairing will just hardlink the (broken) deduplicated
file instead of replacing it with the downloaded/built file. I tried the
daemon’s `--disable-deduplication` too with same results.

Cheers,
Lars

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