[OpenAFS] mysql data from openafs

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:53:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Temp wrote:

> I see.
> Now i must rethink my design :-)

I think umich is running mysql out of AFS, I wonder if they have patches 
to force (fsync or close/open)?

>
> On Friday 23 of July 2004 11:54, Sven Oehme wrote:
>> yes ,
>>
>> afs will not really save the file to the Fileserver , unless you close the
>> file . in a mysql database case it will never save it to the server . this
>> is a very good feature , because it gives you always a consistent file .
>> but if you mysql system itself , or the afs client on that system crashes
>> , you will loose all changes since the last close to the file and mysql
>> will not close any files of a active db .