[Mailman-Developers] Debate about Mailman on BytesForAll

[Dale Newfield]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I've been thinking that, what with all the problems associated with
> BerkeleyDB, it might not make sense to switch to SQLite as the embedded,
> default database for MM3.

The biggest problem with BerkeleyDB is that it REQUIRES that the file
system support memory mapping the files.  This means that you cannot
guarantee correctness if these files are located on an NFS mount.

http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/remote.html

-Dale