David Malcolm writes: > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:14 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > >Phil Muldoon writes: > > > On the central db idea (as opposed to having each application having > > > their own db), what happens on a partial disk failure, and e2fsck can't > > > recover inodes that belong to the db? Reinstall all gcj built rpms? > > > >No. Whenever an rpm is installed, the %post should *rebuild* the db > >from each application's db. It's just a cache. > Does this get amortized so that you don't regenerate it for each package > in a transaction? Otherwise are we getting O(n^2) work? It's very fast. 0.7 seconds for all of jonas, and that's 300 jarfiles and 40,000 classes. Andrew.
