Concurrent access is what has been discussed before as causing problems. - Veronica
> >Subject: Re: [Metakit] corrupt database > From: "Jacob Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:08:23 -0700 (PDT) > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >JC > >Is it a problem when one process opens the same storage several times or >is it only a problem when more than one process opens the same storage? >I'm under the (mistaken?) impression that there's only a problem if more >than one process opens the storage concurrently. Please clarify -- thanks! > >--JYL > >> Guenther Fischer wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jacob Levy wrote: >>>> You (and we) need a little more information: >> [...] >>> It is a starpack with the latest version of tclkit - the windows >>> version >>> is build on linux. tclkit is the build fron equi4.com. >> >> For issues regarding starpacks and tclkit, it is probably more >> effective to post to the starkit mailing list, see: >> http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/starkit >> >>> The error comes only with this one DB created with my application (a >>> wine >>> databes programm). There are many other users - I never see it before. >>> I >>> user tclkit/metakit for some years for this project (free software). I >>> think there are some bad data in the database (disk error or what >>> ever) and this data are needed for indexing or so. >> >> The one unexplained problem on Windows, and it might even be a >> regression from previous releases, is a reported corruption when the >> datafile is on a file server. So this should definitely be something >> to find out. >> >> Every other case I know of was caused by opening more than once. >> >> The bad news: datafile corruption in MK tends to damage real bad. It >> usually does not damage records but entire *columns*. So when trying >> to extract data, your best bet is to try to not extract all properties. >> >> Quick things to try: >> - does "sdx mkinfo <datafile>" give meaningful details? >> - also see the mk2tcl starkit on http://mini.net/sdarchive/ >> - sometimes readkit.tcl can read what MK itself cannot >> >> -jcw >> >> _______________________________________________ >> metakit mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit > > > >_______________________________________________ >metakit mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit _______________________________________________ metakit mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit
