Milter-greylist

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, manu@... wrote:

> Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@...> wrote:
>
>> Did the BDB version have the option to periodically (say, hourly) dump a
>> checkpoint file or something similar?
>
> The problem was that it was impossible to be sure no corruption could
> occur on the DB file if milter-greylist crashed at a wrong time.

How is this different from how a crash is handled now?  We're at the mercy 
of the berkeley engine instead of being at the mercy of the dumpfile.  If 
the milter crashes while writing the dumpfile we're still screwed.

I'm not proposing that if one was to start using BDB or whatever, that the 
dumpfile should be done away with, something easy-to-restore and human 
readable in the event of corruption (and with milter-greylist having the 
option to read the dumpfile instead of or in comparison to the BDB file 
(i.e. to corruption check the BDB version).

-Dan

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