On Friday 17 April 2009 18:16:01 Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:11:24PM +0200, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > > Mailbox files, on the other hand, are usually overwritten, and they > > > are updated in place. This almost works reliably, especially if > > > you use dotlock files and turn off NFS attribute caching. > > > > And I was talking about OP's case of sharing configuration files. I do a > > lot more with nfs, where multiple machines can write to the same file. As > > long as I do it in sequence, the other ones will see the changes. Two > > people editing the same file falls into shooting yourself in the foot > > category and is not specific to NFS or even two different machines. > > It is IMHO much more sensible to push config files from a central machine > where the configs are kept under revision control in CVS, SVN, ... than > to share configs (and indexed tables) via NFS.
I'm looking to save work, not add more or replace one with the other. Plus I have ZFS snapshots [1]. Either way, as long as I keep bdb libraries in sync on the machines, my initial tests show this is working as I expected. Now I'll just sit and wait for the corner cases where it won't work, but can't think of any. ;) [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/misc/zfs/zfs_snapshot.swf -- Melvyn Sopacua