Subject: Re: 2.6.x breaks some Berkeley/Sleepycat DB functionality
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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To: Dan Egli <dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:16, Dan Egli wrote:
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>=20
> I have encountered a strange issue in 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
>=20
> I run a PGP Public key server on this machine and under 2.4.x it's
> "smooth as silk". But if I boot under 2.6.x, it's gaurenteed failure. If
> I try to build a database using the build command (this is an sks
> server, so it's sks build or sks fastbuild) I IMMEDIATELY get  Bdb
> error. But the exact same command with the exact same libraries and
> input files under 2.4.20 works without a hitch.
>=20
> Anyone got any ideas? Anything else I can provide to assist in debugging?

this might be the same issue that hit some rpm versions; some versions
of db4 seem to detect the O_DIRECT header presence and starts using
O_DIRECT, without honoring the alignment requirements linux puts on
O_DIRECT usage...

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