(Sorry for kind of awkward format of the email).
"Even without the potential locking problems and performance penalties, running a database server or other long-running service backed by data stored in AFS (or any non-local filesystem) is fraught with peril. Such a service, running on a perfectly working machine, can unexpectedly lose access to its data due to network problems, a fileserver outage, or even simple things like loss of tokens. This is not something I would recommend for a production service." Yes, but our databases, installed on Deleuze, will be the only clients accessing the database files, and will not lose connection as they are on the same machine as the AFS server. I mean, some unanticipated things could still happen, I'm not saying they wouldn't, but that's why we'd have backups. We can always decide this was a bad idea and revert to using some part of local disk for this. Still, I think it will work and we should try it. -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
