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Summary

Saves, exports and publishing write a temporary file beside the target, sync it, and rename it into place. On Linux and macOS a synced file can still come back under its old name after a power cut until the folder itself is synced, so a save that reported success could revert. A new io::sync_folder syncs the folder after the rename at each place that replaces a user's file:

• write_atomic and write_atomic_with: project saves and single-file exports
• the multi-part replace behind Shapefile export and publish
• the GeoTIFF (COG) writer
• GeoJSON publish

The sync is best effort: the file is already in place, so a folder that can't be opened or synced (some network and FUSE mounts refuse it) leaves the rename to land when the system writes it, as before, and the write still succeeds. Putting old parts back after a failed replace syncs the folder too.

On Windows, std can't open a folder for syncing without a flag that needs either unsafe code or a new dependency, so there NTFS's own journal decides when the rename lands, as before. The browser has no folders. Renames that only replace rebuildable cache or query output (the GDAL and DuckDB conversions) are left alone.

Testing

• All data-crate library tests pass, and every save they make goes through the folder sync. The sync's failure path is ignored by design and can't be triggered portably in a test.
• Clippy with warnings denied, the WebAssembly check (where the sync compiles away), and the full Linux CI on the fork pass.

Related issue

Follow-up to #2036, where CodeRabbit raised it for GeoJSON publish; this applies it to every place in rustgis-data that replaces a user's file.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Completed Shapefile, GeoJSON, and raster file writes now synchronize the destination folder, helping changes persist more reliably.
  • Folder synchronization failures do not cause an otherwise successful write to be reported as failed. Folder synchronization is not performed on non-Unix platforms.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a directory-sync helper and calls it after Shapefile placement and staged-file renames in atomic writing, GeoJSON publication, and raster COG writing. On Unix, the helper syncs the destination’s parent directory and ignores failures. On non-Unix targets, it does nothing.

Changes: Output directory synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Directory sync helper and core writes crates/data/src/io.rs	Adds a Unix helper that syncs the destination’s parent directory. Shapefile placement and atomic file replacement call it after placement or rename. The helper ignores sync failures.
Sync published and raster outputs crates/data/src/publish/json.rs, crates/data/src/raster/cogwrite.rs	GeoJSON publication and raster COG writing call the helper after renaming output files into place.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: giswqs, elpidioassinaturas

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 4c2be

Saves, exports and publishes now also try to sync the containing folder after the file is renamed into place, which reduces the chance of a rename reverting after a power cut. If the folder sync fails, the operation still succeeds, as it did before this change. The PR description says such an error is reported, but the code does not report it, so update the description. Merge risk is minimal.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description follows the template's Summary, Testing, and Related issue sections with substantive content. It explains the power-cut rationale, the affected write paths, the best-effort sync behavi…	1) Restore the '## UI evidence' section and keep the line 'No visible UI change.' because this PR changes no visible UI. 2) Resolve the conflict about folder-sync errors. The description says the sync is best effort and the write still succ…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: saves, exports and publishing now sync the containing folder after renaming a file into place. It uses the conventional fix(data) prefix. The title is 82 characters, w…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: saves, exports and publishing now sync the containing folder after renaming a file into place. It uses the conventional fix(data) prefix. The title is 82 characters, which is long, but it stays on the main point. The PR objectives mention that the commit message describes folder sync as best effort, while the PR description says a folder-sync error is reported. The title does not conflict with either account, so the check passes.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the template's Summary, Testing, and Related issue sections with substantive content. It explains the power-cut rationale, the affected write paths, the best-effort sync behaviour, the Windows and browser exclusions, and the test results. The required UI evidence section is missing: the template says to keep the 'No visible UI change.' line when there is no visible UI change, and the author removed the section. The PR objectives also say the description reports a folder-sync error after the file is written, without rollback. That conflicts with the description's best-effort wording and with the commit message, which says failures are ignored. The description should be corrected to match the code.

Resolution

1. Restore the '## UI evidence' section and keep the line 'No visible UI change.' because this PR changes no visible UI. 2) Resolve the conflict about folder-sync errors. The description says the sync is best effort and the write still succeeds. The PR objectives say a folder-sync error is reported after the file is written. Confirm the actual behaviour and make the description and the commit message agree. 3) Optionally, replace the 'Related issue' placeholder text with a concrete reference format, such as 'Follow-up to #2036' (already present), and confirm the link is correct.

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_{A rabbit checks the folders bright
After files take place just right
The rename lands, the sync call sings
Through paths where data grows its wings
Then hops away on quiet springs}

[github-actions]

Bug (medium, confident in the code path): the rename has already replaced the source file here, but sync_folder failing makes placed an Err, so geojson returns Err and the Published record (files, rows, read) is dropped. crates/engine/src/cmd/publish.rs:85 then does publish(...).map_err(...)?, so the layer's synced record is never updated. The next publish refuses with "changed since the layer was read", and the in-session layer is out of step with the file. The comment at publish.rs:374 ("once they are [placed], the publish has happened, whatever comes after") says this must not happen.

Suggested direction: once the rename has succeeded, keep the Published value and turn a sync failure into a note rather than an error, for example by pushing the sync_folder message into notes. The same applies to the place_shapefile(...)? call at crates/data/src/publish.rs:392, which reaches sync_folder at io.rs:752.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in 4c2be9b. The folder sync is now best effort after the rename and never returns an error, so a publish whose file was placed returns its Published record and the layer takes the new sync record. Shapefile publish through place_shapefile is covered the same way.

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Possible regression (medium–low confidence): any failure of open or sync_all on the folder is returned as an error after the rename has succeeded. Some filesystems reject directory fsync (for example EINVAL or ENOTSUP on certain network and FUSE mounts). On those, every save and export would report failure even though the file was written. Also, File::open on a directory needs read permission, so a folder that is writable but not readable (-wx) would fail the same way.

Suggest treating EINVAL/ENOTSUP from the directory sync as success (SQLite and PostgreSQL do this), and deciding explicitly what a -wx folder should do.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in 4c2be9b. A folder that can't be opened (writable but not readable) or synced (EINVAL/ENOTSUP on some network and FUSE mounts) leaves the rename to land when the system writes it, as every rename did before this change, and the save still succeeds. The data crate has no logging, so the failure isn't recorded; nothing is lost, since the file is written either way.

[github-actions]

Durability gap (low–medium): this sync only runs on success. The rollback path above (the if let Err(e) = result block, io.rs:718–735) restores old parts with rename(bak, target) and removes the placed ones, and nothing syncs those directory changes. After a power cut the old part could come back under its backup name, which is the loss this PR targets. Suggest a best-effort sync_folder(path) on the rollback path too, keeping the original error as the result.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in 4c2be9b. The rollback path now syncs the folder after putting the old parts back, so a power cut after a failed replace can't bring an old part back under its backup name. The original error is still the result.

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Code review

Bugs

• Publish reports failure after the file is replaced (medium, high confidence). In publish/json.rs the sync_folder call sits inside placed, so an error drops the Published record. engine/src/cmd/publish.rs:85 then returns early, so the layer's sync record is never updated and the next publish refuses with "changed since the layer was read". The same happens for Shapefile publish through place_shapefile → sync_folder (io.rs:752, publish.rs:392). The comment at publish.rs:374 says a publish has happened once its files are placed, which this breaks. Suggest turning a sync failure into a note once the rename has succeeded. Inline comment posted on json.rs:92.
• Save and export callers see an error after the write has landed (medium, high confidence). write_atomic_with, write_file (COG) and the publish paths return Err after the rename. Callers such as project.rs:1523, raster.rs:1011 and exports.rs treat that as "nothing written". The message says the file was written, which mitigates it, but the callers' bookkeeping still assumes failure. This is the same root cause as the item above.

Security

• None found. Input paths are unchanged, and the new code does not follow user-supplied links beyond what link_target already resolves.

Performance

• Negligible. One extra directory open and fsync per save, on paths that already fsync the file.

Quality

• Rollback is not synced (low–medium, medium confidence). place_shapefile's rollback restores backups and removes placed parts without syncing the folder. A power cut after the error can leave the old part under its backup name. Inline comment posted on io.rs:752, which is the changed line closest to the rollback block (the rollback lines are not in the diff).
• Directory fsync errors are fatal (medium–low, medium confidence). Some filesystems reject directory fsync with EINVAL or ENOTSUP. On those, every save would report failure though the write succeeded. File::open on a -wx folder would also fail. Suggest ignoring EINVAL/ENOTSUP as SQLite and PostgreSQL do. Inline comment posted on io.rs:765.
• Nits, left for the release quality pass: no test covers the new error path or the ordering (the write lands, then the sync fails). The message is English-only, as are the other data-crate errors. The PR's "every writer that has the same gap" claim does not cover ui-egui/src/autosave.rs, assistant/src/skills.rs or plugins/src/store.rs, which rename files without a folder sync. This may be deliberate, since the PR limits itself to user files.

AGENTS.md

• Passes the no-unwrap/expect rule, the wasm gating (cfg(unix)), and the rule that failures are reported rather than silent. The regression-test rule is not met for this error path (see the nit above). The rollback gap touches the "never silent" spirit, since it is a durability loss on an error path, not a reported one.

Prior reviews: none on this PR, so no earlier concerns were left alone. Three inline comments were posted. One attempt on the rollback lines (io.rs:718) was rejected by GitHub because those lines are outside the diff, so it was re-anchored to io.rs:752.

Change size

Compared with main (merge base bd79ecf to PR head c985a17), the whole PR.

Measure	Value
Files changed	3 (0 added, 3 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	378.9 KB
Size after	380.0 KB
Total size change	+1.0 KB

Path	Before	After	Change
crates/data/src/io.rs	278.5 KB	280.5 KB	+996 B
crates/data/src/publish/json.rs	25.1 KB	25.1 KB	+39 B
crates/data/src/raster/cogwrite.rs	75.3 KB	75.3 KB	+39 B

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Review comments at @crates/data/src/publish/json.rs:
- Around line 89-95: After `std::fs::rename` succeeds, treat the publish as
committed: do not propagate a `sync_folder` failure as the publish result. Run
`crate::io::sync_folder(path)` after the rename and unstage step, add any
failure detail to the existing `notes`, and return `Published` successfully so
the engine can store the new sync record; keep rename and earlier failures as
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[Mavrick-F]

The three inline findings are fixed in 4c2be9b: the folder sync is best effort after the rename, and it also runs on rollback.

Left for the release quality pass: a test for the sync's failure path, which can't be triggered portably in a test. Autosave, plugin installs and assistant skills also rename files; this PR covers the data crate's writers of user files, and I've narrowed the description to say so.

[github-actions]

Never silent (AGENTS.md), low–medium confidence. The earlier thread asked for a notice when the folder sync fails. The reply was that nothing is lost, since the file is written either way. The rule in AGENTS.md covers writers that approximate data, and this PR's own motivation is durability: a save that reported success could revert after a power cut. On the mounts the doc comment names (EINVAL/ENOTSUP, unopenable folders), sync_folder drops the durability guarantee with no notice, and the caller returns success. Nothing in the diff records that. This is a design call for the maintainer: either report the skipped sync through Session::notify (which means threading a notice out of write_atomic, which returns io::Result<()> today), or record the limit in the write_atomic doc comment so callers know a save is not guaranteed durable on those mounts. No suggestion block, since the fix needs an API decision.

[Mavrick-F]

A skipped folder sync leaves durability exactly where it was before this PR: the rename lands when the system writes it, as every rename did until now, and the file is written either way. So it doesn't lose or approximate anything, and threading a notice out of write_atomic would change an interface every saver uses, for a case that only restores the old behaviour. Stating the limit in write_atomic's doc comment is reasonable; that's left for the release quality pass, with the helper's naming and the bare-filename test. The description's Testing line is corrected.

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Code review

I read the diff, the callers of write_atomic, replace_atomic, place_shapefile and stage_shapefile, the GeoJSON publish path, the cogwrite writer, and autosave. I also checked the rename sites across the crates and the earlier review threads. I found no crash, control-flow or data-loss bug in the change itself. The rollback and success paths reach sync_folder in the right order, and sync_folder returns (), so it cannot change any result. The earlier threads are answered in commit 4c2be9b and I confirmed that fix in the code.

Bugs

• None found. Checked: empty or bare parent (Path::new("x").parent() is Some(""), which the filter maps to .); symlinks (write_atomic_with resolves the link first, and replace_atomic renames over the link in its own folder); the Windows and wasm builds (the body is cfg(unix), and the non-unix branch is let _ = path;).

Security

• None found. The only new I/O is an open and fsync on the target's parent directory, and all errors are discarded.

Performance

• Each write_atomic and replace_atomic call now adds one directory fsync, on top of the file fsync it already does. The most frequent caller, autosave, runs on a worker thread, so the UI thread is not affected. The UI-thread callers are user-triggered saves. Low concern, no action needed. (confidence: high)

Quality

• The PR body's Testing section says "a sync that failed would fail them" (the data-crate tests). That is no longer true after 4c2be9b, since sync errors are now ignored. The description should be corrected. (confidence: high)
• sync_folder(path) takes a file path, not a folder, and write_atomic's doc comment doesn't mention the folder sync. Nit, for the release quality pass.
• No test covers the new helper's bare-filename branch or its failure case. Also a nit for the release quality pass. (confidence: medium)

AGENTS.md

• "Never silent": the folder sync can fail silently on the mounts the doc comment names, and the save then reports success without the durability it promises. I posted this inline on crates/data/src/io.rs:765 (confidence: low–medium). It is a design decision for the maintainer: either report through Session::notify, which needs a notice path out of write_atomic, or document the limit on write_atomic.
• Coverage check: every user-file rename in rustgis-data that the PR body names is covered. The GDAL and DuckDB output renames are excluded, as the PR says. No other user-file rename site is missed.

Earlier concerns left alone: 4 threads already exist (the GeoJSON Err after rename, the EINVAL/ENOTSUP and -wx folder cases, the rollback sync, and the sync-record issue). The author answered each one and the fix is in 4c2be9b, so I did not re-raise them. The only new point, on the silent-failure side, is the one posted inline.

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Compared with main: the whole PR (merge base bd79ecf to head 4c2be9b).

Measure	Value
Files changed	3 (0 added, 3 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	378.9 KB
Size after	380.0 KB
Total size change	+1.2 KB

Path	Before	After	Change
crates/data/src/io.rs	278.5 KB	279.6 KB	+1.1 KB
crates/data/src/raster/cogwrite.rs	75.3 KB	75.3 KB	+38 B
crates/data/src/publish/json.rs	25.1 KB	25.1 KB	+38 B

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crates/data/src/io.rs-769-769: 1

769-769: Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

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Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Report folder-sync failures without failing the completed write.

If the destination directory is writable but not readable, the rename can succeed and File::open can fail. This discards the error, so the caller reports success without warning that the rename was not synced. The same applies to a sync_all failure. Return or record a warning that callers can report.

The PR description requires the error to be reported after the write. The commit message separately requires the completed operation to remain successful.

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