Kenneth Loafman wrote: > Peter Schuller wrote: >> I'm not sure why you think this is the problem though. I mean it's >> picking up empty files, and even if flush/fsync was somehow broken, a >> killed duplicity would still be able to leave empty files behind on a >> system where it wasn't. I'll check the source and see where that code >> is from later on but won't be able to until tonight. I take it you're >> saying some file is being created after another file should have been >> written to but wasn't? > > flush() is called after every volume so that the manifest and sig files > have their contents up to date. Theoretically, the only way empty files > could be left after a run is if the process was terminated before the > first volume. After that, they should increase one volume at a time.
The other side to this is that they should still be in temp state until after the first volume, i.e. they would get deleted. On the transition from temp to partial a flush() is performed also. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
