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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-5570:
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bq. if "something bad happens" (e.g. two indexwriters/dirs on the same path, or
some other shenanigans), and the file is actually in stale files, but was say
actually deleted on the filesystem, the underlying fsync() call will create a
new 0-byte file and fsync that.
This is truly awful: sync of a non-existent file should not bring a 0-byte file
into existence!
bq. it tracks 'stale files' as it writes (this seems pointless), and only
actually fsyncs the intersection of that 'stale files' and the filenames passed
as argument to sync(). So any bogus names passed to sync() are just silently
ignored
This is because IW passes all files referenced by all segments when it
commits(), i.e. we push the responsibility of remembering which files are
written but not sync'd down to Directory. This used to be IW's responsibility,
but we changed that in LUCENE-2328 I think.
> FSDirectory's fsync() is lenient
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> Key: LUCENE-5570
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5570
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core/store
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Attachments: LUCENE-5570.patch
>
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> This method has a lot of problems:
> 1. it tracks 'stale files' as it writes (this seems pointless), and only
> actually fsyncs the intersection of that 'stale files' and the filenames
> passed as argument to sync(). So any bogus names passed to sync() are just
> silently ignored
> 2. if "something bad happens" (e.g. two indexwriters/dirs on the same path,
> or some other shenanigans), and the file is actually in stale files, but was
> say actually deleted on the filesystem, the underlying fsync() call will
> create a new 0-byte file and fsync that.
> In my opinion we should do none of this. we should throw exceptions when this
> stuff is wrong.
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