[Ifeffit] Is Athena NFS safe?

2010-03-23 Thread David Ehle
Bruce, Is Athena NFS safe? i.e. If you have a user logged in on two different computers using a single NFS mounted home directory, are there any potential problems or conflicts when running Athena on both computers? Thanks! David. ___ Ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] Is Athena NFS safe?

2010-03-23 Thread Matt Newville
Hi David, There is no explicit protection for disk access to prevent i/o conflicts between different applications (and nothing specific to NFS or other networked drives), but disk access is relatively rare and reasonably well encapsulated. So, yes there are potential problems, though I don't