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Re: [Ifile-discuss] Re: protect .idata from corruption
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Ole Jacob Taraldset |
Subject: |
Re: [Ifile-discuss] Re: protect .idata from corruption |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:31:15 +0100 |
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Bug reported.
-Ole Jacob
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:18, Dave Marquardt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:52:15 +0100, Ole Jacob Taraldset <address@hidden>
> said:
>
> Ole> I just experienced that all the data in my .idata was
> Ole> deleted. The hd was 100% filled last night and that is probably
> Ole> the reason why it happened. Is there anything that can be done to
> Ole> prevent this from happening again (except for maing sure that the
> Ole> hd is filled up)?
>
> I experienced this a while back too. I consider this to be a bug in
> the code. There must be some code not properly checking for errors on
> write(), close() or rename(). If I remember the code correctly, the
> updated database is written to a temporary file then renamed to the
> database file name. Something is failing in here, and it should be
> caught.
>
> So I propose you open a bug (if you don't, I will, eventually), and we
> fix it.
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