Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 07:33:24 EST


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> These days, usually, the transaction database for MTAs is UNIX
> filesystem. For ZMailer I have considered (although not actually
> done - yet) using SleepyCat DB files for the transaction subsystem.
> There are great challenges in failure compartementalisation, and
> integrity, when using that kind of integrated database mechanisms.
> Getting SEGV is potentially _very_ bad thing!

Read: lethal to the spool. Has SleepyCat DB learned to recover from
ENOSPC in the meanwhile? I had a db1.85 file corrupt after ENOSPC once...

-- 
Matthias Andree
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