[Xapian-discuss] Xapian over NFS (again...)

[shad]

Over NFS, readers does not receive any DatabaseModifiedError, so the
database is never reopened, and the readers work with an old database
revision, in memory I guess.


On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Olly Betts<olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:45:42PM +0200, shad wrote:
>> I use several readers on a xapian index mounted over NFS. I use a
>> try/catch mechanism to reopen database only on modifications
>> (DatabaseModifiedError exception). My software works great on a local
>> filesystem. But I noticed that there is no DatabaseModifiedError
>> exception raised on NFS. So all readers never reopen the database on
>> modifications.
>
> So what happens instead of the reader getting DatabaseModifiedError?
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>



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