For me it would be very interesting a option to save cyrus tables in a traditional database. ( mysql, postgresql, etc... ) Zinato > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wednesday 22 September 2010 15:29:20 Kenneth Marshall wrote: >>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:48:49PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>>> > On 22/09/2010, at 22:33, Kenneth Marshall wrote: >>>> > >> On a bad shutdown it requires admin intervention very frequently >>>> which >>>> > >> is pretty tedious. >>>> > >> >>>> > >> And yes, upgrading it is also a PITA. >>>> > > >>>> > > That is why we moved to skiplist. The server would require manual >>>> > > intervention to even restart after certain types of system events. >>>> > > It is hard to explain why mail was unavailable for 30+mins. when >>>> > > the server rebooted in 2mins. BDB would need to be much, much >>>> > > easier to manage and be more robust for us to use. >>>> > >>>> > Yep, I plan to migrate to skiplist some day :) >>>> > >>>> > Now if only I could use skiplist with openldap ;) >>>> >>>> Sadly, OpenLDAP does need the performance of BDB. >>> >>> With current "LDIF" exports of OpenLDAP, the downtime caused by a corrupt >>> BDB >>> database is "acceptable". >>> >>> Is a similar method possible with cyrus? >>> Eg. a simple command that exports all BDB-database-files to a simple >>> format >>> that can easily be re-imported into Cyrus when the DBD is corrupted? >> >> That's exactly what our RPM does. It converts all BDB databases to >> skiplist on shutdown. On startup, it detects the format of all database >> files and converts it back to what is configured if needed. >> >> As Bron told us, with 2.4 the magic on startup is done inside Cyrus. My >> question remains, why can't we get rid of BDB completely? >> >> Simon >> >> ---- >> Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ >> List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ >> > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
