[Nix-dev] bdb database crashing all the time under vmware

[Erick Tryzelaar]

Armijn Hemel wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 02:31 -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
>   
>> Some more nixos bugs. It seems that every once and a while when I run 
>> "nixos-rebuild switch", I get some complaints from bdb saying that there 
>> was corruption. I'm not sure if this is because I'm running under 
>> vmware, although a quick google doesn't suggest a config problem between 
>> the two. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a copy of the error, 
>> so I can't refer to the output yet. Has anyone else experienced this?
>>     
>
> Are you perhaps storing the database on a networked filesystem (NFS,
> SMB, whatever)?
>
> Berkeley DB can't work properly with networked filesystems, due to some
> inner magic of Berkeley DB.
>
> armijn
>
>   

It's not on a networked filesystem, but it is using a virtual hard drive 
provided by vmware. That disk image is on a local drive.