[Kde-pim] Akonadi on NFS

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 06 May 2010, 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?

As Kevin already pointed out Kontact/KMail is already unusable (aka you 
risk the loss of data) if one doesn't logout at every machine in a 
multi-seat environment. Akonadi won't make is worse.

Anyway, maybe using the PostgreSQL backend of Akonadi is an alternative 
provided NFS is used synchronously:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/creating-cluster.html


Regards,
Ingo
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