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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 22:25:40 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        bright@wintelcom.net, bsddiy@163.net, kris@obsecurity.org, grog@lemis.com, tlambert@primenet.com, mckusick@mckusick.com, ru@FreeBSD.org, fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc]
Message-ID:  <20010516222540.T46445@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <200105151510.f4FFABt62656@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:10:08AM -0400
References:  <20010514225533.M2009@fw.wintelcom.net> <200105151510.f4FFABt62656@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin(mi@aldan.algebra.com)@2001.05.15 11:10:08 +0000:
> [cvs-lists removed from CC]
> On 14 May, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Assuming your database is a serious production quality system it will
> > implement its own style of data integrity and consistancy checking
> > on top of the filesystems in case it happens to crash.
> 
> Is not this a slightly wrong attitude? Why does a serious production
> quality database needs its own checking for problems, which can only
> be come from OS if it runs on a serisous production quality OS?
several "production quality database"s use raw devices for holding the
payload (speak: storage). so, what's this all about?
using a filesystem to store multi-keyed data records is as inefficient
as using a database to hold logfiles (hello sap ;-)
just my EUR 0.02
/k

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