On Wednesday, 29 November 2006, at 16:04:49 (-0500), seth vidal wrote: > However, if it were possible to corrupt the ext2 filesystem by > performing frequent reads and writes It is. > we would consider that a bug in ext2, not in the program making the > writes. Not necessarily. You're making a rather large ASSumption that the problem doesn't like with the program, or the VFS layer, or some other component. In any event...what's your point? I have yet to see a scenario where frequent reads from and writes to the RPM DB, which were allowed to complete successfully without interruption, caused any corruption in the DB structure. yum's psychotic handling of transactions notwithstanding, of course. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't care if you win or lose, just as long as you win." -- Vince Lombardi _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
