From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 08:54:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B1A106566B for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ap00@mail.ru) Received: from mx0.awanti.com (mx0.awanti.com [91.190.112.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0568A8FC1B for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ap00@mail.ru) Received: from pstation (unknown [10.28.4.14]) by mx0.awanti.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A127B4C1B5; Mon, 12 May 2008 12:35:42 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:38:06 +0400 From: Anthony Pankov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Personal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <15336578.20080512123806@mail.ru> To: Garrett Cooper , Joerg Sonnenberger In-Reply-To: <9FC19AC2-DAD8-418C-8B9C-F129DEC58CEF@gmail.com> References: <20080509124308.GA596@britannica.bec.de> <9FC19AC2-DAD8-418C-8B9C-F129DEC58CEF@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: BDB corrupt X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Anthony Pankov List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:33 -0000 Please, can anybody explain what is the problem with BDB (1.86). Is there known caveats of using BDB? Is there some rules which guarantee from curruption or it is fully undesirable to use BDB under high load? It is important for me because of using BDB in my project. > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:52:46PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> >> As one of the persons hacking on pkg_install in pkgsrc/NetBSD, I would >> *strongly* advisy you against storing the files only in a bdb file. >> The change of major and complete corruption with bdb185 is high, >> consider pulling the plug in the middle of a long update. >Sunday, May 11, 2008, 5:38:25 PM, you wrote: GC> +1. BDB is quite easy to corrupt... -- Best regards, Anthony mailto:ap00@mail.ru