[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Feature request for dhcp-hostfiles to behave like addn-hosts

[Vincent Cadet]

Simon Kelley wrote:

...
> > A tangential  question, I've increased MAXLEASES to
> > 
> > #define MAXLEASES  16384
> > 
> > in config.h. Is there any danger in having this many  leases and
> > increasing this even higher if necessary? I'm a few weeks  away from
> > being able to test this at scale and appreciate any warnings  or
> > feedback anyone might have now.
> > 
> If you get bitten  anywhere, it will be performance writing the lease
> file. That gets truncated  and re-written for every change. On reasonable
> storage it should be fine, but  maybe not on a slow flash drive. If it's
> a problem that's that prefect excuse  to write a script to move the
> database to a MySQL backend,  right?

What about sqlite? IMHO MySQL seems a little bit overkill for that purpose.

Vince C.