BDB corrupt

[Garrett Cooper]

On May 12, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Kurt Lidl wrote:

> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On May 12, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Anthony Pankov wrote:
>>>
>>> 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...
>> BDB isn't ATOMic, like SQL or other DB backends.
>
> You mean ACID probably.  And there are plenty of SQL databases
> that aren't ACID either.  (e.g. Mysql 4.x, Mysql 5.x w/o the
> right kind of backing store)
>
> -Kurt

Yes, you're right. Atomicity is the A in ACID.
-Garrett