lib/PublicInbox/OverIdx.pm    |  9 ---------
 lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm |  3 +--
 script/public-inbox-compact   | 13 +++++--------

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/OverIdx.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/OverIdx.pm
index 0e43aabc044f61d0f16153b70f554cbc11159fc9..5c20f1f0c2170c4dae4a3417a8c77ad73ee95010 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/OverIdx.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/OverIdx.pm
@@ -14,19 +14,10 @@
 sub dbh_new {
 	my ($self) = @_;
 	my $dbh = $self->SUPER::dbh_new;
-	$dbh->do('PRAGMA synchronous = OFF'); # commit_fsync instead
 	$dbh->do('PRAGMA journal_mode = TRUNCATE');
 	$dbh->do('PRAGMA cache_size = 80000');
 	create_tables($dbh);
 	$dbh;
-}
-
-sub commit_fsync {
-	my $fn = $_[0]->{filename};
-	if (open my $fh, '+<', $fn) {
-		$fh->sync;
-		close $fh;
-	}
 }
 
 sub get_counter ($$) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
index b858dcc737a2e9a327f96823cfe2cbc6b1dc193e..a8117aaa15a109cd90e2513ca42703120ca30ab3 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@
 # issue a write barrier to ensure all data is visible to other processes
 # and read-only ops.  Order of data importance is: git > SQLite > Xapian
 sub barrier {
-	my ($self, $fsync) = @_;
+	my ($self) = @_;
 
 	if (my $im = $self->{im}) {
 		$im->barrier;
@@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ 		# each partition needs to issue a barrier command to over
 		$_->remote_barrier foreach @$parts;
 
 		$over->barrier_wait; # wait for each Xapian partition
-		$over->commit_fsync if $fsync;
 
 		# last_commit is special, don't commit these until
 		# remote partitions are done:
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-compact b/script/public-inbox-compact
index b8aaa4bd812f7a54ffe7c8ef0af8d3878205b0c4..43e94609a01ee79891cf11c25363e263492d06c5 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-compact
+++ b/script/public-inbox-compact
@@ -36,15 +36,12 @@ sub commit_changes ($$$) {
 	my ($im, $old, $new) = @_;
 	my @st = stat($old) or die "failed to stat($old): $!\n";
 
-	for my $suf (qw(.pipe.lock -journal)) {
-		my $orig = "$old/over.sqlite3$suf";
-		link($orig, "$new/over.sqlite3$suf") and next;
-		next if $!{ENOENT};
-		die "failed to link $orig => $new/over.sqlite3$suf: $!\n";
+	my $over = "$old/over.sqlite3";
+	if (-f $over) {
+		require PublicInbox::Over;
+		$over = PublicInbox::Over->new($over);
+		$over->connect->sqlite_backup_to_file("$new/over.sqlite3");
 	}
-	link("$old/over.sqlite3", "$new/over.sqlite3") or die
-		"failed to link {$old => $new}/over.sqlite3: $!\n";
-
 	rename($old, "$new/old") or die "rename $old => $new/old: $!\n";
 	chmod($st[2] & 07777, $new) or die "chmod $old: $!\n";
 	rename($new, $old) or die "rename $new => $old: $!\n";