No. The page/lock server is deeply involved with the Firebird on disk
structure.
On Monday, March 23, 2015, Tony Whyman
wrote:
> Just out of interest, is OCFS2/DRBD any use as a page/lock server?
>
> On 23/03/15 13:01, James Starkey wrote:
> > The major new piece is a separate component, the pa
Just out of interest, is OCFS2/DRBD any use as a page/lock server?
On 23/03/15 13:01, James Starkey wrote:
> The major new piece is a separate component, the page server. By
> phase 5, it will be necessary to integrate page change and lock
> manager traffic, so perhaps a better name would be p
To elaborate somewhat, a very small number of changes would need to be made
to the Firebird engine -- the essential architecture is already in place.
The changes are mostly to DPM and below. Ironically, the code to generate
page change records used to be part of the code base to support long term
Goal: Morph Firebird into a high performance, distributed, fully redundant
database.
Both JRDs (DEC Rdb/ELN and Interbase) were designed as elastic database
systems for VAXClusters. They are share-nothing engines, communication
exclusively through a distributed lock manage and network attach dis