Re: DirectoryStorage on NFS?

On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 00:59, J C Lawrence wrote:
> Will DirectoryStorage run correctly in a situation where the database is
> on an NFS mountpoint?  

I dont see why it shouldnt work, but Im happy to admit to being an NFS novice.

>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/DirectoryStorage/PosixFilesystem.py", line
> 43, in sync_directory fsync(f)
> OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

The problem occured trying to fsync a directory. Is that not supported on NFS? 

I *think* all directory operations are synchronous on NFS, so it should be 
safe without that operation. Try this patch for now. If it works out we can 
create a configuration file option.


Index: PosixFilesystem.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/dirstorage/DirectoryStorage/PosixFilesystem.py,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -C1 -r1.24 PosixFilesystem.py
*** PosixFilesystem.py  3 Aug 2004 20:56:16 -0000       1.24
--- PosixFilesystem.py  4 Nov 2004 08:27:16 -0000
***************
*** 35,37 ****
      def sync_directory(self,dir):
!         if self.use_sync:
              p = os.path.join(self.dirname,dir)
--- 35,37 ----
      def sync_directory(self,dir):
!         if 0: # not on NFS
              p = os.path.join(self.dirname,dir)


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