Avoid opening idxfile to early for writing. Especially as it might get truncated due to error handling later on.

Instead just open the file when you need to write it. It does not happen that often to warrant keeping it open all the time.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fastos/src/vespa/fastos/file.h b/fastos/src/vespa/fastos/file.h
index dcc2b401846..8a9de224259 100644
--- a/fastos/src/vespa/fastos/file.h
+++ b/fastos/src/vespa/fastos/file.h
@@ -514,6 +514,8 @@ public:
 
     virtual void EnableSyncWrites();
 
+    bool useSyncWrites() const { return _syncWritesEnabled; }
+
     /**
      * Set the write chunk size used in WriteBuf.
      */