[IPython-dev] Checkpoints & empty directories

[Brian Granger]

Is it too late to add a flag to disable atomic saving in 4.0 (I think
leaving it on by default is fine)? I think any multistep save process
is likely to be more problematic than a one-step save on certain types
of network/shared file systems.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 July 2015 at 20:38, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I forget what we decided about atomic saving - will 4.0 have a way to
>> disable it? I am still running into these issues on nfs file systems
>
>
> 4.0 will achieve atomic saving in a different way, which will hopefully
> cause fewer problems.
>
>> It's odd that the stuff I saved was lost though. It wasn't critical work,
>> just some notes I took. It's more of a puzzle than an annoyance.
>
> It's pretty concerning to us if the notebook can lose work. But I can't
> immediately think what else might be causing it. If it happens again, please
> let us know.
>
> Thomas
>
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