> >    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

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