[OpenAFS] MS Access databases on AFS
Richard Heggs
richard@ingenitor.net
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:39:49 +0100
Thanks, Jeffrey.
That will probably be sufficient. It'll probably be irrelevant by
Christmas. With any luck :)
Richard
Quoting Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>:
> On 9/22/2010 9:50 AM, Richard Heggs wrote:
>> Hi Dirk,
>>
>> Yes, I agree with everything you say. As I said in my first post, I am
>> working on a replacement) with PostgreSQL at the back and a web
>> frontend). That is some months away to completion, though, and they need
>> a temporary solution *now*.
>>
>> I was horrified when I learned that they were keeping critical data in a
>> MS Access database. And even more horrified when I learned that it was
>> backed up "whenever someone remembers"!
>>
>> Richard
>
> MS Access will request byte range locks on the db-file. Those will be
> converted to full file locks in AFS by the cache manager. You won't be
> able to share the database in AFS. However, since AFS locks are
> advisory there is nothing to prevent someone with authorization and
> malicious intent to delete the file or write over it. That is of
> course true with any file in AFS.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>