[OpenAFS] System plan

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:16:39PM +0100, Sandor Feher wrote:

> I need some confirmation that we are moving to the right direction.
> We have four mars_nwe servers to serve our customers who use foxpro and 
> visual basic applications and handling quite big picture files. We'd like 
> to organize that four server into a single afs namespace. Nothing extra 
> just want to offer them to the users simplifying the login procedure and 
> create some backup and load balance capabilities. My collegue has read 
> somewhere that it's not recommended to use openafs for database purposes.
> I don't know whether is it still true or what is the recommended solution 
> for foxpro and vb apps. Any idea would be appreciated.

I guess, FoxPro and maybe your VB apps will require file-locking at the
byte level. This is not currently supported by OpenAFS (and this is
probably implied by "database purposes").

HTH! Tino.

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