Re: bdb on nfs

> and it states:
> 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.

It "works" - mostly, until it potentially starts to corrupt your data.

Any sort of locking on NFS is somewhat of a hack - it might work most
of the time - but when it doesn't - you'll wonder why you did it in
the first place.

Recently at $DAY_JOB, we had to back off using a networked BDB system
because we were seeing NFS related corruption. (Different hosts would
see different views of the BDBs.) Quite nasty.

(And this is on a relatively recent Linux.)

SleepCat said that they Linux issues they mention were generally on
much older kernels.

Concurrency is hard. NFS comes close.

-R

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Received on Wed Apr 2 20:52:36 2003