On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:08 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote: > 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. It's psychotic b/c it makes lots of consecutive reads? Interesting. -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
