Dennis Cote wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is, not many network filesystems work correctly.
Hi All,
If my understanding of this is correct, SQLite only requires that the
network file system has; reliable data transport and working file
locking. This has primarily been an issue on older implementations of
NFS where the file locking does not work correctly. I believe that SMB
(windows shares and Samba) do work correctly. I also seem to remember
someone saying that current versions of NFS work correctly. It seems
like overkill to say SQLite won't work an all network file systems,
when in fact it will work on some, perhaps even most.
I appreciate that there are still network latency issues that will
impact performance, but that is a separate issue. Many users could
accept the lower performance as long as they don't have to worry about
corruption.
I'm sure someone knows which versions of NFS have working file
locking, at least under Linux. Perhaps we can collect this information
about network file systems that are known to work and those that are
known to have problems and post them on the wiki. Right now this
issue seems to be handled more as folklore than science.
So, what works and what doesn't? Let me know.
Dennis Cote
I don't have much more to say on the subject than Dennis does, but I do
want to second his idea of getting accurate data and posting it
someplace. It's a very good idea.
Alex
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