Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:37:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, josb@cncdsl.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <3AA52E66.425725FC@softweyr.com> References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <ybupugd2u4n.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> <ybug0gr3hsc.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <v04220801b6ca532b3d95@[194.78.241.123]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 6:41 PM -0500 3/5/01, Randell Jesup wrote: > > >> We in the unix world have a well-founded aversion to storing configuration > >> information in binary data stores that can't be accessed via ed(1) when > >> the system is in single-user mode. If we wanted to stuff all the system > >> configuration into such a black hole, we could've done it with DBM data- > >> bases more than a decade ago, quite easily. > > IIRC, the cool thing about using Berkeley db (specifically, the > "Berkeley DB Transactional Data Store", see > <http://www.sleepycat.com/xactfeatures.html>) instead of dbm or > anything else that is freely available, is that virtually all the > information recorded in the database is in a format that is > relatively easily recoverable with tools that would be suitable for > use in single-user mode. Conversely, the really bad part about using SleepyCat's proprietary product is that it would force anyone making FreeBSD-based products to either rip it out of the system or pay SleepyCat money. I think we can pretty much forgo any further discussion on this point. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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