Re: I lost 7 bdb repositories yesterday!

  Hoi Dirk,

  two months ago I had broken repos which got broken again a few
  days later. I managed to fix them with a db4.2_upgrade on the
  db/[a-z]+ files.

  Since 1.2 came out I switched all repos to FSFS and never had
  a corruption.

Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> The real reason we've not "pulled the plug" on BDB yet is that
>>
>> (1) in the vast majority of cases, it works fine.
>>
>> (2) we're working closely with sleepycat on BDB 4.4, which should
>> clear up most of these problems. The low-tech explanation I've heard
>> is that BDB 4.4 will automatically detect wedgeness and auto-recover
>> itself.

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