Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

[Gunnar Wolf]

John Marshall dijo [Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:58:47AM +1000]:
> > I have just seen way too many problems with Berkeley DB in way too  
> > many situations. It seems to be fine for small applications: postfix  
> > uses it for really small files, for example. But anything big and it  
> > becomes unmanageable.
> > 
> > Again and again and again. I'm convinced it's just a really bad idea.
> 
> If *the problem* was in fact BDB, it would be biting many more folks
> really hard and David wouldn't be the only one giving up.  I have been
> running SKS on FreeBSD servers for something like 7 years and I can't
> remember having any BDB problems at all.  The databases are on local
> UFS2 filesystems and I don't mess with keydumps.  Back when I started I
> went through the pain of doing a full database import from a keydump,
> and then trashed the keydump.  Perhaps the folks who have BDB problems
> are the ones who mix keydump and BDB key storage?

FWIW I had my share of BDB issues long time ago, maybe four years ago,
when I had set up my SKS server on bare-metal hardware. I've not had
any issues since I set it up in a LXC, even having had a HDD failure
in the meantime.