Re: fsync() errors is unsafe and risks data loss

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 07:32:21PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:

> And there's cases where that just doesn't help at all. Being able to
> untar a database from backup / archive / timetravel / whatnot, and then
> fsyncing the directory tree to make sure it's actually safe, is really
> not an insane idea.  Or even just cp -r ing it, and then starting up a
> copy of the database.  What you're saying is that none of that is doable
> in a safe way, unless you use special-case DIO using tooling for the
> whole operation (or at least tools that fsync carefully without ever
> closing a fd, which certainly isn't the case for cp et al).

Does not seem like a problem to me, just checksum the thing if you
really need to be extra safe. You should probably be doing it anyway if
you backup / archive / timetravel / whatnot.

-Lukas



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