From: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:16:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213161600.28349.42261@megatron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9q-NbhRC=Be20aW5Vz+swou419zJxZD4O-3PSTJr+K=iQ@mail.gmail.com>
Quoting Jason A. Donenfeld (2012-12-13 14:32:53)
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:
> > There should be no way to corrupt the database at this level through
> > the Xapian API, which means nothing libnotmuch can do (much less users
> > of libnotmuch) should be able to corrupt the database. If you can
> > reproduce the problem, it's probably a serious bug in Xapian, but it
> > could also have been a file system bug or even random file system
> > corruption.
>
> Well that's... troubling.
>
> Patrick: could you please backup and try to reproduce? Otherwise I'll
> assume this was a one-off situation.
I tried it again, concurrently triggered some modifications
and killed the process afer a while.
(my modifications were not flushed during the run of your script as
the index was locked)
The index seems to be OK. So I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this reliably.
/p
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 13:47 notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script) Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-11 18:26 ` Patrick Totzke
2012-12-12 18:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-12 20:49 ` Austin Clements
2012-12-12 21:26 ` David Bremner
2012-12-13 14:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-13 14:32 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-13 16:16 ` Patrick Totzke [this message]
2012-12-15 6:18 ` Austin Clements
2012-12-15 8:25 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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