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If the number 44 of directories is less than the number of partitions, the directories will be used in a round robin 45 fashion. 46 </p> 47 <p> 48 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_partition_dirs()</code> method may not be called after the 49 <a class="xref" href="dbopen.html" title="DB->open()">DB->open()</a> method is called. 50 </p> 51 <p> 52 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_partition_dirs()</code> <span> 53 <span> 54 method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success. 55 </span> 56 57 </span> 58 </p> 59 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 60 <div class="titlepage"> 61 <div> 62 <div> 63 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1649385"></a>Parameters</h3> 64 </div> 65 </div> 66 </div> 67 <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 68 <div class="titlepage"> 69 <div> 70 <div> 71 <h4 class="title"><a id="id1649044"></a>dirs</h4> 72 </div> 73 </div> 74 </div> 75 <p> 76 The <span class="bold"><strong>dirs</strong></span> points to an array of directories that 77 will be used to create or locate the 78 database extent files specified in the <a class="xref" href="dbopen.html" title="DB->open()">DB->open()</a> 79 method call. The directories must be included in the environment 80 list specified by <a class="xref" href="envadd_data_dir.html" title="DB_ENV->add_data_dir()">DB_ENV->add_data_dir()</a>. 81 </p> 82 </div> 83 </div> 84 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 85 <div class="titlepage"> 86 <div> 87 <div> 88 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1648945"></a>Errors</h3> 89 </div> 90 </div> 91 </div> 92 <p> 93 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_partition_dirs()</code> <span> 94 <span> 95 method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors: 96 </span> 97 98 </span> 99 </p> 100 <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 101 <div class="titlepage"> 102 <div> 103 <div> 104 <h4 class="title"><a id="id1649145"></a>EINVAL</h4> 105 </div> 106 </div> 107 </div> 108 <p> 109 An invalid flag value or parameter was specified. 110 </p> 111 </div> 112 </div> 113 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 114 <div class="titlepage"> 115 <div> 116 <div> 117 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1649146"></a>Class</h3> 118 </div> 119 </div> 120 </div> 121 <p> 122 <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. 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