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Come on, /that/ downvote was unfair. I can grudgingly accept that people downvote me for saying negative things about someone without linking to evidence (that
by peterfirefly 12y ago
Come on, /that/ downvote was unfair.
I can grudgingly accept that people downvote me for saying negative things about someone without linking to evidence (that really does exist, I swear!).
But Berkeley DB not being robust back in the day shouldn't be controversial at all. It's a simple fact.
And look: here's someone who agrees:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3614071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3614071
(this time it was a lot easier to google)
- dekhn 12y agoI didn't downvote you myself, but I will say I have ... um... "some" experience with Berkeley DB, and it's pretty well designed for reliability. Obviously that doesn't mean nobody has ever experienced corruption, but it's been used heavily in production environments as the storage layer for many systems.
- peterfirefly 12y agoI didn't think you did and I apologize for not phrasing it better. Berkeley DB is an old piece of software that has changed a lot over time, as have the environments it has to run in. I think the big change in robustness happened from 3.x to 4.x. Edit: grammar.
- wpietri 12y agoI downvoted you not because your statement was negative but because it was irrelevant. You jumped in to trash somebody tangentially mentioned apparently because you don't like their politics. When somebody gave you a substantive response, you ignored the meat and came back with personal trivia. Comments like these waste everybody's time.