Re: MacOS X problems---Corrupt repository

Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> writes:

> To put this back on the radar screen, there has been a number of issues
> with people using 4.1.25 on Linux/FreeBSD boxes that have had repositories
> that end up being corrupted where the only way to recover is to restore
> a backup copy.

My recollection is that Sander Striker was having discussions with
sleepycat folk, and that some deep issue was revealed. In almost all
of these cases, a berkeley db table had switched 'type' for some
reason; the sleepycat people revealed that this might happen if
recovery is happening whilst something else changes the db. (Is this
accurate, Sander?)

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Received on Fri Aug 1 19:01:45 2003