Damien, Isn't that the current behavior, too? Now the files are just scattered around instead of in one directory.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 16:28, Damien Katz <dam...@apache.org> wrote: > The problem doing it this way is what happens if there is crash between the > rename and the actual delete. Then you'l have a large file stuck on the file > system, never actually deleted. > > -Damien > > On Jul 28, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Robert Newson wrote: > >> All, >> >> It used to be possible to mount multiple volumes under >> /var/lib/couchdb and direct databases to them using embedded %2f's. >> This broke recently when a central .delete directory was introduced. >> The file:rename attempts to cross filesystems and fails with EXDEV. >> >> I have fixed this at >> http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb/commit/fbbc42d0787e33ecc894abe50333fc1dcebeb5d5 >> and would be grateful for a review before I commit to trunk. I think >> we want/need this for 1.0.1 >> >> Night, >> B. > >
