[Mailman3-dev] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Debate about Mailman on BytesForAll

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Aug 26 22:13:23 CEST 2004


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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:10, Dale Newfield wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > I've been thinking that, what with all the problems associated with
> > BerkeleyDB, it might not make sense to switch to SQLite as the embedded,
> > default database for MM3.
> 
> The biggest problem with BerkeleyDB is that it REQUIRES that the file
> system support memory mapping the files.  This means that you cannot
> guarantee correctness if these files are located on an NFS mount.
> 
> http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/remote.html

Add that to the list of BDB problems, then. :/

-Barry

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