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

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Wednesday, 29 November 2006, at 16:04:49 (-0500),
seth vidal wrote:

> However, if it were possible to corrupt the ext2 filesystem by
> performing frequent reads and writes

It is.

> we would consider that a bug in ext2, not in the program making the
> writes.

Not necessarily.  You're making a rather large ASSumption that the
problem doesn't like with the program, or the VFS layer, or some other
component.

In any event...what's your point?  I have yet to see a scenario where
frequent reads from and writes to the RPM DB, which were allowed to
complete successfully without interruption, caused any corruption in
the DB structure.

yum's psychotic handling of transactions notwithstanding, of course.

Michael

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