On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:22 +0100, Frédéric Perrin wrote: > Le dimanche 16 à 2:01, Allan McRae a écrit : > > There has been low interest in a real database solution due to > > potential issues recovering from corrupt databases and with the > > additional dependencies. > > A question from a random user (one that won't submit more patches than > the average user): > > Why would a database be more subject to corruption than a tar file, and > harder to recover? > An answer from an average user: I believe in tar files corruption would only affect the files stored at that 'place' in the tar files. So for example if there's a failing HD and 20 sections are affected, 'only' that information is lost. For a database which is necessarily more complicated, the whole database may be a write-off. Of course, if there's a failing HD you've got bigger problems than just pacman's db =)
