On 01/31/2016 04:17 PM, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 29 Jan 2016 10:03 pm, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> FWIW I found the new database backend (not mentioned anywhere in the >> original submission). It is here: >> >> http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=tree;f=lib/backend/ndb >> >> Since this change has (rashly) been approved by FESCO, I guess we're >> going to be copying this code into some libguestfs tools, and we'll >> have to keep up with changes to RPM. It's a drag compared to using a >> real key-value store. >> >> > > I wonder if the MDB (or LMDB) database from the openldap team was evaluated > as a possible BDB replacement? LMDB seems a poor match because it requires the administrator to set a maximum database size, its key length is limited compared to Berkeley DB (which supports multi-megabyte keys). This means integrating it takes more than just rewriting the API calls. Florian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
