[Kde-pim] Akonadi on NFS

[Milian Wolff]

Martin Steigerwald, 06.05.2010:
> Hi!
> 
> I heard about problems regarding Akonadi on NFS. Confirmed here:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
>   Deployment issues
> 
> [...]
>     * InnoDB tables should not be used on NFS.
>     * NFS speed: MySQL documentation recommends against locating its data
> files on network shares. -----------------------------------------------
> 
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Deployment_issues
> 
> Regarding InnoDB I read:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Warning
> 
> 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.
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-restrictions.html
> 
> How serious are these? Does anyone already use Akonadi on NFS? If yes, how
> well does it work? Is Akonadi usable on NFS based homes at all?
> 
> If not, I will hold back KDE 4 upgrade for our company until it is. Since I
> won't ditch NFS in favor of Akonadi.
> 
> We have a similar issue with Zimbra, which we just run partly on NFS, but I
> heard that in theory MySQL should be able to run via NFS. With Zimbra its
> quite easy, since its a server in a virtual machine. But KDE is
> client-side and a KDE session for one user might be run on different
> workstations or even via OpenVPN tunneled NFS.

Just a note from me with my IT-admin hat on:

At our university (FU-Berlin) we also use NFS shares for $HOME. I bet many 
other universities or similar institutions use such setups and I hope that it 
can be made to work somehow.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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