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