Re: Re: SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:58 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 November 2006, at 15:48:17 (-0500),
> Tony Nelson wrote:
> 
> > It disapoints me that you think it is not RPM's responsibility to
> > protect its database.
> 
> It is RPM's responsibility to provide database backups as much as it
> is the kernel's responsibility to back up your ext2 filesystems.
> 

However, if it were possible to corrupt the ext2 filesystem by
performing frequent reads and writes we would consider that a bug in
ext2, not in the program making the writes.

-sv