> but it's not enabled by default though. and not it's a huge database either.
> just a directory tree corresponding to domain names, eg.
>> <hoststat-dir>/uk/ac/whatever/hostname
>> strange that they went for a filesystem structured database rather than
> using a db file..
Not really strange. To do this with a db file, you need things like
concurrent & multiple process read/write which are not present in berkeley
DB v1.x. Introducing a dependency on later versions of the berkeley DB
package would just make it less portable and the feature less useful.
Nick
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