Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:30:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:30:31 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:51718 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:30:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:33:24 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks Message-ID: <20020716123324.GF4576@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References:

<20020716020845.Z28720@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020716020845.Z28720@mea-ext.zmailer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 19 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/