[Mailman-Developers] Problem with MM after power outage

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:06 PM -0400 2003/08/19, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>>  ok, but how do you make sure the file is really on disk instead of,
>>  e.g., half on disk and half on cache?
>
>  We close the file before we rename it.

	Do you fsync() the directory after the close and before the rename?

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