[Kde-pim] Akonadi on NFS

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2010-05-06, Milian Wolff wrote:
> Tobias Koenig, 06.05.2010:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:50:37PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Hi!
> >
> > Hej Martin,
> >
> > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-restrictions.html
> >
> > Quoting the above reference:
> >
> >   "It is not a good idea to configure InnoDB to use data files or log
> > files on NFS volumes. Otherwise, the files might be locked by other
> > processes and become unavailable for use by MySQL."
> >
> > So the real problem seems to be that some other process could lock these
> > files, however that shouldn't be the case if you have only one
> > Akonadi/MySQL server running at each time that accesses the user's db
> > files.
> 
> Which means KDE-Pim gets unusable when one doesn't logout at every machine
>  in a multi-seat environment?
> 
> It would be a pity, but many other programs fail in these cases:
> Firefox, OpenOffice, ...

File locking is unfortunately never easy, especially since every filesystem 
behaves different.

KMail for example always assumed that it is the only program accessing the 
files, on the same session even by forcing a single instanc through 
KUniqueApplication.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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