Re: SFS Lock question

2010-02-03 Thread Colin Allinson
Kris Buelens wrote :- > You could use Q FILEPOOL CONFLICT to see wait conditions > SFS guarantees read integrity, that is, if someone has a file in read, SFS keeps that image > of the file until the last reader closes it (this image is kept in shadow tables). > And -just tested- you can ind

Re: SFS Lock question

2010-02-03 Thread Kris Buelens
You could use Q FILEPOOL CONFLICT to see wait conditions SFS guarantees read integrity, that is, if someone has a file in read, SFS keeps that image of the file until the last reader closes it (this image is kept in shadow tables). And -just tested- you can indeed ERASE the file while someone has

SFS Lock question

2010-02-03 Thread Colin Allinson
Sorry for the long preamble but I need to explain what I see happening :_ I inherited an application that was not very well designed or written but is too complex an critical to make wholesale changes. The way it works is that :- 1) Server A loads a cumulative log into an SFS (file control