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Subject: Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)
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On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> But most of the time, there's no point. If you actually care about what
> happens in the event of an unclean shutdown, you typically also need to
> sync the directory, otherwise the file's contents will get sync'd but the
> file's very existence might not be.

Or just store your content in a PostgreSQL database, and let it worry
about all the platform-specific details of how to fsync reliably.

ChrisA