[Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Datastore index corruption!

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:50 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:39:45AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:15 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> > > Ugh.  So Write has terminated before data is saved?  That's bad.  Should
> > > it not wait for data to be fully saved?
> > 
> > I believe data was saved, but the metadata index was not flushed to disk
> > by the datastore process.
> 
> Isn't that functionally identical to not saving data?

The effect is slightly different from not saving the data at all: it
uses up space in the filesystem :-)

Seriously, if you could force an index rebuild, you'd get to see the
hidden data.

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