At this point it is pure academic curiousity. I am putting together a cheap cluster to play with shared drive failover, and thought I would see what happens when I point two MySQL machines at the same drive while I'm at it.
Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Zawodny > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jeremy Zawodny > Subject: Re: Question about InnoDB and external locking > > > 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]
