On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:41:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, here's another question. Given effective external locking by the OS, could > MyISAM tables achieve this?
Yes. > If so, do you know any operating systems that would have reliable > external locking? I'm not sure what the state of file locking is in various OSes. I believe it's generally not a problem unless you also throw NFS into the mix... Out of curiosity, why do you need to do this? I've found that it's a rare need. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
