We currently support a variety of database back-ends, mainly MDB and LevelDB. Currently these on-disk representations don't conflict, meaning that if you try to use the wrong one, you'll just get an error. However it's possible that other back-ends could accidentally delete files or cause corruption, if you use the wrong back-end to open the wrong repo. We should store the back-end used outside of the database itself so we can verify it before opening anything.
This might be expanded to run-time back-end switching in the future, too.
We currently support a variety of database back-ends, mainly MDB and LevelDB. Currently these on-disk representations don't conflict, meaning that if you try to use the wrong one, you'll just get an error. However it's possible that other back-ends could accidentally delete files or cause corruption, if you use the wrong back-end to open the wrong repo. We should store the back-end used outside of the database itself so we can verify it before opening anything.
This might be expanded to run-time back-end switching in the future, too.