[GLLUG] Burnbox documentation & bug tracking

Charles Ulrich charles at bityard.net
Thu Feb 21 01:08:31 EST 2008


On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
>  Logging the burns is complicated by the proposed setup this year, which
>  has the database residing on a network file share with the images.
>  Multiple processes attempting to write to an SQLite database when it is
>  stored on a network file system is a known bad situation.  File locking
>  via network file systems is not reliable and collisions, with attendant
>  database corruption, are entirely possible.  I would need to change the
>  database backend to get around this, and that isn't trivial to do.

Database abstraction layers to the rescue! :P

Charles


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