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2003 Jul 23
2
trouble with maps
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I reinstalled the maps and mapdata packages from
ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map/
to see it that would help, but it doesn't.
Since our platform is an SGI (running R-1.8.0, development
version, June 25), I made sure to use mapget.c.notlinux,
and that didn't help either.
Any thoughts? Is there something I'm missing?
Debby
[Apologies if r-help receives this twice; I'm learning to
use a new mailer.]
2009 Mar 18
24
rename(2), atomicity, crashes and fsync()
Hi all,
Recently there''s been discussion [1] in the Linux community about how
filesystems should deal with rename(2), particularly in the case of a crash.
ext4 was found to truncate files after a crash, that had been written with
open("foo.tmp"), write(), close() and then rename("foo.tmp", "foo"). This is
because ext4 uses delayed allocation and may not