At 10:32 PM +0300 2006-06-07, Dale Newfield wrote:
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
>> I'm looking at running Mailman on a cluster of servers, sharing a single
>> disk with Apple XSan.
>
> Barry, none of the bdb stuff you were working on is in the 2.1 tree, is
> it? bdb does not guarantee acid properties over networked file systems...
My understanding is that Berkeley db doesn't work at all on NFS,
because it uses mmap to handle access to the database files, and mmap
on NFS is an undefined operation. This is the same problem that
people wanting to use Cyrus on NFS face, for the same reason --
Berkely db on NFS doesn't work.
--
Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>.
_______________________________________________
Mailman-Developers mailing list
Mailman-Developers@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Searchable Archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org
Security Policy:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
