There is no change in behavior. This just helps prepare for the
transition from boost::filesystem to std::filesystem by avoiding calls
to methods which will be unsafe after the transaction to std::filesystem
to due lack of a boost::filesystem::path::imbue equivalent and inability
to set a predictable locale.
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kiminuo <kiminuo@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>
It was recently pointed out to me that calling fsync() or fdatasync() on a new
file is not sufficient to ensure it's persisted to disk, a the existence of the
file itself is stored in the directory inode. This means that ensuring that a
new file is actually committed also requires an fsync() on the parent directory.
This change ensures that we call fsync() on the blocks directory after
committing new block files.
