Re: [Sks-devel] [Fwd: Re: 2.6.x breaks some Berkeley/Sleepycat DB functionality]

[Yaron M. Minsky]

I'm not sure.  It sounds like an issue for the RPM packagers of db4. 
Maybe the right thing to do is to forward the issue to them.  Why not
post it to Redhat's bugzilla?

y

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:15, Dan Egli wrote:
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> Just got this back from the Kernel list on the problem I mentioned on
> the 2.6 Linux kernels. Might this be of help in determining the best fix?
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> - --- Dan
> - -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: 2.6.x breaks some Berkeley/Sleepycat DB functionality
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:24:12 +0100
> From: Arjan van de Ven <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
> To: Dan Egli <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> References: <address@hidden>
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> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:16, Dan Egli wrote:
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> | I have encountered a strange issue in 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
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> | I run a PGP Public key server on this machine and under 2.4.x it's
> | "smooth as silk". But if I boot under 2.6.x, it's gaurenteed failure. If
> | I try to build a database using the build command (this is an sks
> | server, so it's sks build or sks fastbuild) I IMMEDIATELY get  Bdb
> | error. But the exact same command with the exact same libraries and
> | input files under 2.4.20 works without a hitch.
> |
> | Anyone got any ideas? Anything else I can provide to assist in debugging?
> 
> this might be the same issue that hit some rpm versions; some versions
> of db4 seem to detect the O_DIRECT header presence and starts using
> O_DIRECT, without honoring the alignment requirements linux puts on
> O_DIRECT usage...
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