[Sks-devel] Files of Database from SKS

[Olaf Gellert]

Hi all,

I have setup an SKS and it works fine, actively syncing via
email to our Horowitz-Server. I just wondered about the
structure of the database. These are the files in the
directory KDB:

-rw-------    1 root     root         8192 Feb 12 20:29 __db.001
-rw-------    1 root     root     26222592 Feb 12 20:29 __db.002
-rw-------    1 root     root        98304 Feb 12 20:29 __db.003
-rw-------    1 root     root        16384 Feb 12 20:29 __db.004
-rw-------    1 sks      root     3771160576 Feb 18 11:17 key
-rw-------    1 sks      root     83894272 Feb 18 11:11 keyid
-rw-------    1 sks      root     10484589 Feb 13 01:25 log.0000000001
-rw-------    1 root     root     10485711 Feb 14 06:53 log.0000000002
-rw-------    1 root     root     10485747 Feb 16 21:21 log.0000000003
-rw-------    1 root     root     10485231 Feb 17 20:22 log.0000000004
-rw-------    1 root     root      4352009 Feb 18 11:17 log.0000000005
-rw-------    1 sks      root         8192 Feb 12 20:29 meta
-rw-------    1 sks      root     76804096 Feb 18 11:17 subkeyid
-rw-------    1 sks      root     68513792 Feb 18 09:27 time
-rw-------    1 sks      root         8192 Feb 12 20:29 tqueue
-rw-------    1 sks      root     406036480 Feb 18 11:17 word

What are the __db.00[1234] files for? They were obviously
created when the database was made, but since then never
touched.

I guess that the file "key" contains the keys itself. I
would have expected, that the database would be splitted
into some more (equal sized) files.

I am just curious...

Regards, Olaf

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