database corruption

[Matthias Andree]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Dave Lovelace wrote:

> > Other question: is NFS or another networked file system involved? If
> > yes, does it support fcntl()-locking?
> 
> Well, yes and no.  The machine this is on uses NFS, & it doesn't support
> fcntl().  But bogofilter has not been run over it, only locally.

Then NFS doesn't come into play here.

> <snipping instructions for repairing>
> That appears to have produced at least a reasonable-looking database,
> something less than 2/3 the size of the bad one.  We'll have to see
> whether performance suffers, but I don't really expect anything too bad.

About the size, I'm not sure if that's a problem. I've seen _intact_
data bases shrink on this procedure as well, it appears that such a
procedure squeezes the free space (should I write clipping) out of the
.db file.

Glad it worked for you.