On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:13, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > 2. The O_DIRECT patch/hack that allows rpm (actually, the underlying > > Berkeley DB) to work correctly. > > That's scary - a kernel patch needed for a user space library to work > properly? I'll have to look that one up and see what that's about - but > I initially don't like the sound of that. OK - O_DIRECT looks like a performance tune more than anything, and isn't _necessary_ so to speak. I was running vanilla rpm 4.3 on an LFS system with BerkeleyDB 3.x (whatever the stable 3 was) and has no issues - so I suspect the O_DIRECT patch wouldn't have been a necessity to have. But not having run RH9/FC1 I can't say for sure. Just that other systems with rpm and BDB 3 and 4 and rpm ran fine w/o the patch - so unless RH/Fedora messed up BDB then that wouldn't have been an issue. -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
