Recovering from crashes - improvements needed!

2002-10-26 Thread Iain Stevenson
I had a system crash which, as it turns out, trashed mailboxes.db and deliver.db. Whilst trying to sort this out, I found that ctl_cyrusdb went into a loop. I'm sure it's a loop because 16 hours seems a bit too long to repair a system with 5 users and strace showed no change for the ctl_cyru

Re: database types

2002-10-14 Thread Iain Stevenson
--On Monday, October 14, 2002 9:25 am +0200 Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I implemented some db converting mechanisms which will > automagically convert any dbs on the fly. Interesting, are these conversion tools available outside your RPMs? I have a PPC mail server (loosely ba

Re: database types

2002-10-13 Thread Iain Stevenson
There has recently been a short discussion on the list about this - cones down to efficiency issues. Not using db4 would seem also to eliminate warnings about "lockers". I'd be more worried about migration issues from one sort of database to another. Last time I tried modifying the database