From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 10:27:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A72A37B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14aMKs-00008O-00; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:37:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3AA52E66.425725FC@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:37:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Randell Jesup , Terry Lambert , Matt Dillon , Alfred Perlstein , josb@cncdsl.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 6:41 PM -0500 3/5/01, Randell Jesup wrote: > > >> We in the unix world have a well-founded aversion to storing configuration > >> information in binary data stores that can't be accessed via ed(1) when > >> the system is in single-user mode. If we wanted to stuff all the system > >> configuration into such a black hole, we could've done it with DBM data- > >> bases more than a decade ago, quite easily. > > IIRC, the cool thing about using Berkeley db (specifically, the > "Berkeley DB Transactional Data Store", see > ) instead of dbm or > anything else that is freely available, is that virtually all the > information recorded in the database is in a format that is > relatively easily recoverable with tools that would be suitable for > use in single-user mode. Conversely, the really bad part about using SleepyCat's proprietary product is that it would force anyone making FreeBSD-based products to either rip it out of the system or pay SleepyCat money. I think we can pretty much forgo any further discussion on this point. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message