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From: "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:17:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: `notmuch setup` replaces `~/.notmuch-config` instead of
	truncating it
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 22:42, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On 11/16/2010 03:37 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On 11/16/2010 03:26 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 So in the light of the above quoted "glitches", my questi=
on is:
>>> due to the small chance of a power loss happening right when we write
>>> such a small file, doesn't the inconvenience weight more than the
>>> (fairly remote probable) file loss?
>>
>> What inconvenience? =C2=A0The inconvenience of writing the code correctl=
y?
>
> Ah sorry -- on re-reading, i see you're probably referring to the
> inconvenience of breaking hardlinks, dropping permissions, ACLs and
> other metadata.

    Yes, exactly this is what I'm referring to: the meta-data that is
not copied when a new file is created.


> That's an open question, as far as i'm concerned. =C2=A0it'd be nice if t=
here
> was a way to "clone" a file's permissions and metadata to get the best
> of both worlds. =C2=A0maybe someone knows some tricks to do that?
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0--dkg