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[Ifile-discuss] Re: [Bug #2955] .idata file becomes zero size if disk b
From: |
clemens fischer |
Subject: |
[Ifile-discuss] Re: [Bug #2955] .idata file becomes zero size if disk becomes full |
Date: |
13 May 2003 14:24:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) |
Jason Rennie <address@hidden>:
> address@hidden said:
>> Hi. Here's a request to reactivate this bug and test for a race
>> condition, my .idata got nuked by ifile processing recently.
>> (similarly to the mailing list post, my user directory partition was
>> temporarily overflowing and ifile wrote nothing back to .idata.)
>
> Are you using version 1.3.1? ("ifile --version" will tell you)
i don't know what ifile does in situations like this, but the
"standard" way of doing this would be to write a temporary database
onto the same filesystem and only rename(2) it into its final state
after the update has been successful. if not, it might return
"temprary error".
clemens