On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:39:28PM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > > right now, we don't work correctly on NFS at all. berkeley db does
> > > not function correctly on an NFS filesystem, so if that's needed,
> > > we're talking about rewriting the underlying filesystem, and i don't
> > > think anyone is jumping up to do that anytime soon...
> >
> > Actually, Berkeley DB does work over NFS, you just can only use it from
> > *one* environment at once.
> >
> > http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/remote.html
>
> yes, but this sort of defeats the purpose of sticking the repository
> on a network drive so that multiple people can access it,
Of course. That's not the only reason to use NFS, though, and it's a long
way from "[doesn't] work correctly on NFS at all". Just clarifying.
Brian
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Received on Fri Apr 19 17:49:19 2002