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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Thu May 17 04:59:07 PDT 2007</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>Hi, One thing I noticed is that the forceload option could be just added
  35 </I>&gt;<i>into the main code rather then an option.  If services sees corruption in
  36 </I>&gt;<i>the databases it could just automatically load what ever it can understand
  37 </I>&gt;<i>and ignore the rest of the database.  This would also help when restarting
  38 </I>&gt;<i>ircservices as if no one is at the system or needs to restart ircservices
  39 </I>&gt;<i>it could take care of the databases itself rather then needing to login to
  40 </I>&gt;<i>the system and run a binary.  I could see this useful for ircops who don't
  41 </I>&gt;<i>normally have access directly to the system where ircservices is running
  42 </I>&gt;<i>but if they saw a need to restart ircservices they could do so with out
  43 </I>&gt;<i>needing to contact the admin of the server if a database would not load
  44 </I>&gt;<i>and services would not start.
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  46      The problem with this (and the reason -forceload is not the default
  47 in the first place) is that if some part of the database is corrupt,
  48 there's no telling how bad the situation is.  In the worst case, Services
  49 could be unable to load any data, then overwrite your database files with
  50 empty databases, destroying any chance you had of retrieving the data via
  51 other means (such as writing a program to extract the data).
  52
  53      In any case, -forceload is only supported for the database/version4
  54 module, and there only for certain databases (a corrupt oper.db, for
  55 example, will cause Services to abort whether -forceload is given or not).
  56 Moreover, due to the format of those database files, it's unlikely you'd
  57 be able to recover any data anyway under most circumstances.  I probably
  58 ought to just get rid of the option entirely.
  59
  60   --Andrew Church
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