[OpenAFS] Re: berkeley-db, svn and afs

[Joe Buehler]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> For the record, the problem with Berkeley DB in AFS, as far as I
> understand it, is that it uses byte-range locking.  So if there's only one
> client, it seems likely to me that it would be fine, although I haven't
> personally tested it.

I believe that the linux client does byte-range locking just fine,
as long as the processes are on the same machine.  You get complaints
in the syslog but it then falls back to the native implementation.

Try it and see if it works.
-- 
Joe Buehler