Subject: Re: odd db4 error with 2.5.69-mm4 [was Re: Huraaa for 2.5]
From: Shawn <core@enodev.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Thanks for all the help! So, is it that there is likely misuse of
O_DIRECT somewhere (db4, rpm, etc)?

Wonder if I should bother filing a bug if rpm has a bugzilla...

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 21:18, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> They appear to either not be running in equivalent environments or
> something has gone horribly wrong. The diff is incredibly noisy and not
> useful for debugging, could you strace the working kernel's bit as root?
> 
> Also, things start getting wildly different after both examine DB_CONFIG,
> where 2.4 and 2.5 open different files with different options, i.e. 2.5
> does O_DIRECT on /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 and 2.4 never touches that file,
> and 2.4 never does O_DIRECT either.
> 
> This may very well have something to do with the difference in
> privileges.

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