[Aide] Aide 0.11-rc1 do_md Unknown error 530, error mmap'ing

[Richard van den Berg]

On Wed, October 5, 2005 14:35, Marc Haber said:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:25:37AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote:
>> Thanks for trying this release candidate. I should have mentioned that
>> when upgrading, the aide.db should be created with the new version. So,
>> first run "aide --init" before doing an "aide --check".
>
> If that's a requirement, aide should probably write its version into
> the database, and complain if an incompatible database is read. Of
> course, having backwards compatibility is better, and indeed 0.11rc1
> seems to work fine against databases written by 0.10 on my test system
> - unless there is some hidden problem.

The hidden problem is that the size of large files (>2GB) are now
correctly written to the database. So if an aide.db from 0.10 is
compatible with 0.11 depends on if you recorded sizes in it, and if you
did so for very large files.

Running "aide --init" with 0.11 when upgrading is not needed in other cases.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg