BDB corrupt

Anthony Pankov ap00 at mail.ru
Mon May 12 08:54:33 UTC 2008


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...




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