I worry about installations with many many databases (like Canonical UbuntuOne with over a
million). Walking the dir structure to look for .delete files would take a very long time.
Though I suppose it could scan it async and not block server operation.
-Damien
On Jul 28, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Randall Leeds wrote:
> Hmmm. Would it be crazy to walk the tree nuking the .delete files on startup
> instead?
>
> Sent from my interstellar unicorn.
>
> On Jul 28, 2010 5:42 PM, "Damien Katz" <damien@apache.org> wrote:
>
> No, it moves the files to a fixed subdirectory (".delete"), and on start-up,
> clears out that subdirectory. So if you crash after the rename to the
> directory, but before the delete, on the next startup it will complete the
> deletion by nuking all the files in that directory.
>
> -Damien
>
>
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Randall Leeds wrote:
>
>> Damien,
>> Isn't that the current behavior, too...
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