[mnet-devel] Ickle me, pickle me, tickle me too...

[Zooko]

> I question Zooko's suggestion of overwriting the checkpoint file 
> in-place; I wonder what could happen during a crash. Maybe it's better 
> to write the checkpoint to a new file, fsync it, and then rename it 
> over the old one.

That would be guarantee that either the old or the new version is in place 
(assuming certain guarantees from the underlying filesystem), right?  That 
*is* better.

But we still have the possibility that it is the old version, which can cause 
problems.

--Z



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