From: Vincent Fourmond Date: 2006-10-26T20:19:39+09:00 Subject: Re: bug with sdbm? snacktime wrote: > I found that when trying to store marshalled data in sdbm, it croaks > with the message "sdbm_store failed (SDBMError)" when the marshalled > object contains binary data, such as a compressed file. dbm and gdbm > work fine, as does berkeleydb. Quoting from Ruby in a Nutshell, page 152: SDBM: Public domain implementation of DMB. HAs the same interface as DBM. Runs almost anywhere but has inferior performance and data-size limitations compared to the other DBMs... Looks like you're hitting those limitations. Vince -- RiaN is your friend and ally