[PATCH v3 3/5] compact: preserve backup database until compacted database is in place

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Tue Nov 19 16:59:26 PST 2013


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at 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


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