Understood -- I hope I never see an need to run this -- I'd look long,
and hard before I did. In case anybody is perceiving my interest in
subverting POSIX locking as implied embracing of subverting POSIX
locking: I'm am not condoning this.

-bch


On 2/5/15, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> On 2/5/15, bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Its even better -- the Remote Machine is a cluster of machines sharing
>> disk. I solved the immediate problem -- however this raises a
>> question:
>>
>> Is there a --ignore-advisory-locks switch to fossil, or can we (The
>> List) have a discussion about this ?
>>
>
> The option is
>
>     --vfs unix-none
>     --vfs unix-dotfile
>     --vfs unix-posix
>
> Etc.  You can also do
>
>    export FOSSIL_VFS unix-none
>
> Note that if you set unix-none, and then you get to instances of
> Fossil running on the same repository at the same time (which can
> easily happen if Fossil is running as a server on the machine) then
> you risk corrupting the database file and losing content.  The same
> kind of disaster can happen if you get two versions of Fossil running
> at the same time and using different locking protocols.  YOU HAVE BEEN
> WARNED.  NO TEARS!
> --
> D. Richard Hipp
> d...@sqlite.org
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