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

[Ian Eiloart]

--On Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:13 pm -0400 Barry Warsaw 
<barry at python.org> wrote:

> (Redirecting to the Mailman 3 list)
>
> 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
>

I've been looking at the SQLite site here 
<http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=WhenToUseSqlite>. They recommend that 
you don't use SQLite on NFS mounted file systems - for the same reasons.




-- 
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS