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

["James Olin Oden" <james oden gmail com>]

On 11/29/06, seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu> wrote:
> 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.
Honestly, in simple terms with no emotion , Jeff is saying that your
doing updates to a database that belong in the same "transaction"
across multiple "transactions"  thus loosing all your locks.  If you
want transactional semantics, you have to do all the updates and reads
within the same transaction.  Right?  Or am I smoking crack?

Cheers...james