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diff --git a/bugs/sftp-round-trip-optimisation-results-in-scary-log-messages.mdwn b/bugs/sftp-round-trip-optimisation-results-in-scary-log-messages.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 3626452..0000000 --- a/bugs/sftp-round-trip-optimisation-results-in-scary-log-messages.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -[[!tag obnam-wishlist]] - -I've done a fair bit of work to optimise away a whole bunch of round -trips over sftp. For example, renaming a file over sftp can fail, if -the target name already exists. So we try to remove it first. The -pretty way of doing that would be to check if the target exists before -trying to remove it. However, that would mean an extra round trip, -when the target does exist. - -Pretty: - - 1. does target exist? - 2. if it exists, remove - 3. rename - -Ugly: - - 1. try to remove target, and ignore a failure due to target not - existing - 2. rename - -Unfortunately, doing things the ugly way results in the log file -containing a lot of tracebacks from paramiko. They're benign, but -they look scary, and they fill the log with useless text. - -Reported-By: Jordi Marqués - - -Could obnam just catch the exception and therefore stop the scary tracebacks from appearing in the logfile? - Andrew Ruthven - - -This is fixed now. It was a problem with Obnam debugging output, -not paramiko's fault at all. --liw [[done]] - |