Dear all, Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> writes: * * We get much smaller files. At David Kessen's request I tried this * with -p to see if it made any difference. It doesn't. It appears the * differnce is simply BSD DB vs DBM. * * I normally use -cfMV with the code I run. I cleaned the directory and * the added "p" yielding -pcfMV. The results were: * * [curtis@figaro.ans.net 5] ls -ltr test * total 51856 * -rw-r----- 1 curtis staff 22044885 Sep 29 00:27 ripe.db.save * -rw-r----- 1 curtis staff 16384 Sep 29 18:08 ripe.db.save.db * -rw-r----- 1 curtis staff 4448256 Sep 29 18:08 ripe.db.save.cl.db * [curtis@figaro.ans.net 6] du -s test * 51858 test * * We are running modified code (some of the flags are not in the RIPE * distributed code, but all our code recently went to David). Anyone * can get the same effect relinkink BSD DB and looking for the few * places in the .pl files where .pag or .dir is found. I have received the code from Curtis. Since it looks like that BSD DB is a fast and more reliable database package I certainly want to support it. Support for BSD DB will be in the next distribution. Kind regards, David Kessens RIPE NCC Database software maintainer --------