On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:49:59 +0100 Brian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And might someone explain what this change is about, how it improves > performance or whatever? I had assumed that the change to using .inc > directories allowed various different signatures to be held in separate > files, This was already allowed with .cvd files. The .inc directories were introduced to handle incremental/scripted updates but we decided to drop them due to various issues with advisory locks (eg. possible clamd terminations in case freshclam got locked up and failed to update the database and release the db lock). The .cld files have a very same structure as .cvd however they're not digitally signed (they're created by freshclam using digitally signed .cdiff files) and can be stored uncompressed (this a default behaviour) to make their loading faster. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Wed Apr 16 16:08:30 CEST 2008 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
