On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:17:10PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Er ... has libdb disappeared from the most recent Coda CVS? I can't > log in and ldd (this is a Debian Linux system) says libdb is not linked.
Well it became virtually impossible to maintain code based on libdb 1.85. Redhat 8.0 and Debian-unstable only provide a precompiled version for backward compatibility reasons,-cut-
also note that cygwin does not have libdb1.85.
so you can't compile also on all the possible client of the system (remember, alpha-7 means instable ;).
<myopinion> the port to various windows version of the *client* is important, for example a user, from home, can mount it and work. yes tere are samba, but you must open 137+139+various ports and the client is really vulnerable... </myopinion>
I looked at various solutions, such as including db1.85 in the Coda sources or using one of the other databases that is still being developed. -cut-
if i remember correctly, you wrote also another post about "leave libdb1.85"
There are still some optimizations left that I can use in the server. Right now the database is reopened for every lookup, which is unnecessary. rwcdb already has checks whether the underlying database file was updated and only reopens it when necessary.
infact, apart from libdb header, IMHO, the port to another db system will help the system to be faster.
Jan
Daniele
