It means totally read only. File locking in general is sketchy at best. Over NFS it's a train wreck.
-Eric On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:03:06 -0700, Steve Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to have the data store on a netapp NFS server. > One writer mysql machine, with external-locking, and one (or more) > machines that do read only queries. > > Will the read-only machines get consistent data from their queries? > > The docs say only " Make it easy for yourself: Forget about sharing a > data directory among servers over NFS. " > > The only reference to this I could find on the archives is " > > There is a document on the mysql web site that cleary states that unless this > is a read only database, this is going to give you a lot of problems.." > > I could not find that document. I was unclear if the above post meant > the db had to be totally read only, or just read only from all the other > machines except the writer.... > > Thanks > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Eric Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
