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" <[email protected]> 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...
