> > What would folks here think of storing the YumDB data as symlinks rather > > than as files? > > > > The values that are short enough could be stored and read more easily > > and quickly as symlinks than as files. > > Dangling symlinks, which is what these would be, are treated as errors by > some sysadmins and some (security) scanners. The future confusion is not > worth the small performance gain. The performance gain is further eroded by > filesystems storing small files (and symlinks) in the inode which makes them > very quick to read. (If the system call overhead is an issue then you're > better off using a different storage format altogether.)
In dnf we have a contributor working on yumdb rewrite to an sqlite database schema. -- Michael Mráka Software Management Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel