On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:22:46 +0100, J.J. van Gorkum wrote: >Yes, a big one : NFS is non-atomic in it's writing... > >A write action to the (NFS) disk can be interrupted (normal behaviour in >the NFS world). So when the software (even the disk driver) reports that >the data is written to the disk there is a possibilitiy that this is not >true....
I haven't really looked into it yet, but the main plan is to only have the content delivered to web front ends over NFS. So most transactions will be read transactions. Logs for the servers will be stored on the local disks. But it's good to know that this is a problem that might show up ofcourse, will help with the farm design. :) --- RW. Vley F/X Services -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
