From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] compact: preserve backup database until compacted database is in place
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:59:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uwjvqfl.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384466607-28298-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
> It is less error prone and window of failure opportunity is smaller
> if the old (backup) database is always renamed (instead of sometimes
> rmtree'd) before new (compacted) database is put into its place.
> Finally rmtree() old database in case old database backup is not kept.
pushed,
d
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-20 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <id:1384362167-12740-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
2013-11-14 22:03 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] compact: preserve backup database until compacted database is in place Tomi Ollila
2013-11-14 22:03 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] compact: unconditionally remove old wip database compact directory Tomi Ollila
2013-11-14 22:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] compact: improve error messages on failures after compaction Tomi Ollila
2013-11-20 0:59 ` David Bremner [this message]
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