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inplace: new program

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Message #35 received at 13028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 13028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler <at> dwheeler.com>
Subject: Re: bug#13028: inplace
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 15:42:20 +0100

On 16/05/16 14:47, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 16 May 2016 at 14:42, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ​Did this get anywhere?
>>>
>>
>> Nothing public unfortunately.
>
>
> ​Are there difficulties one might be able to help with?

I just don't have the time at present to complete this.

I did implement ACID file replacement using POSIX APIs a while ago in:
https://github.com/pixelb/crudini
The commit messages there have details on fsync()ing requirements etc.

Implementation in C in coreutils could also use other APIs where available
like renameat2(..., RENAME_EXCHANGE) and exchangedata() etc.
I noticed XFS_IOC_SWAPEXT but that's currently hardcoded
to support only same sized replacements (for defragment apps).
I was thinking of providing a wrapper for exchangedata() in gnulib,
which could be leveraged where available or falling back to
the current POSIX APIs.

thanks,
Pádraig

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