[OE-core] [PATCH 07/20] udev-cache: Update cache tarball atomically

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Ben Shelton <ben.shelton at ni.com> wrote:
> From: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton at ni.com>
>
> Overwriting the tarball in-place could cause a partial write, if the
> system stops at an inopportune time. This is mitigated by first writing to a
> temporary file, then moving that file on top of the final location.
>
> Natinst-Rally-ID: TA44427
> Acked-by: Gratian Crisan <gratian.crisan at ni.com>
> Natinst-ReviewBoard-ID: 58620
> Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton at ni.com>


Acked-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>

As an improvement, this could be written in tmpfs so it avoid
duplicated writting. For NAND devices without much free space this
might matter.

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