RE: [U2] Looking for advice on upgrading from Unidata 6.0 to Unid ata 7.1 o n HP9000 HPUX 11

2009-01-23 Thread Lunt, Bruce
I have another question that is more generic: Can we upgrade one box to 7.1 and NFS mount a file that is on the 6.0 box and still read and write the data? Or is there something about the upgrade that changes the underlying file? This would allow us to begin testing without having to perform a

RE: [U2] Looking for advice on upgrading from Unidata 6.0 to Unid ata 7.1 o n HP9000 HPUX 11

2009-01-23 Thread Ken Wallis
So long as you don't care about locking! -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Lunt, Bruce Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2009 8:42 AM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] Looking for advice on

RE: [U2] Looking for advice on upgrading from Unidata 6.0 to Unid ata 7.1 o n HP9000 HPUX 11

2009-01-23 Thread Wally Terhune
you cannot use NFS mounts to access UniData files on another box that are being accessed locally without risking file corruption. period. no matter that the releases. The reason is that record locking and group locking (which maintains the integrity of data within a group in a hashed file