Thanks, Jeffrey.
That will probably be sufficient. It'll probably be irrelevant by
Christmas. With any luck :)
Richard
Quoting Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]>:
On 9/22/2010 9:50 AM, Richard Heggs wrote:
Hi Dirk,
Yes, I agree with everything you say. As I said in my first post, I am
working on a replacement) with PostgreSQL at the back and a web
frontend). That is some months away to completion, though, and they need
a temporary solution *now*.
I was horrified when I learned that they were keeping critical data in a
MS Access database. And even more horrified when I learned that it was
backed up "whenever someone remembers"!
Richard
MS Access will request byte range locks on the db-file. Those will be
converted to full file locks in AFS by the cache manager. You won't be
able to share the database in AFS. However, since AFS locks are
advisory there is nothing to prevent someone with authorization and
malicious intent to delete the file or write over it. That is of
course true with any file in AFS.
Jeffrey Altman
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