Re: bdb on nfs

> Some Linux releases are known to not support complete semantics for
> the POSIX fsync call on NFS-mounted filesystems. No Berkeley DB files
> should be placed on NFS-mounted filesystems on these systems.
>
> therefor i'm wondering why there seems to be a common understanding,
> that bdb does not work on nfs.

Well, add Solaris 2.8 to that list then because you get failures all the
time trying to use BDB over their NFS.

If Sun can't even get it POSIX compliant then don't hold your breath
waiting for everyone else to do it.

Michael "on a Sun box with every filesystem NFS mounted" Price

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Received on Mon Mar 31 17:23:50 2003