On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:22 +0100, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
Le dimanche 16 à 2:01, Allan McRae a écrit :
There has been low interest in a real database solution due to potential issues recovering from corrupt databases and with the additional dependencies.
A question from a random user (one that won't submit more patches than the average user):
Why would a database be more subject to corruption than a tar file, and harder to recover?
An answer from an average user: I believe in tar files corruption would only affect the files stored at that 'place' in the tar files. So for example if there's a failing HD and 20 sections are affected, 'only' that information is lost. For a database which is necessarily more complicated, the whole database may be a write-off. Of course, if there's a failing HD you've got bigger problems than just pacman's db =)