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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] compact: preserve backup database until compacted
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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