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

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:08 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote:
> 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.

It's psychotic b/c it makes lots of consecutive reads? Interesting.

-sv