On 2007-09-05 Scott Marlowe wrote: > And there's the issue that with windows / NTFS that when one process > opens a file for read, it locks it for all other users. This means > that things like virus scanners can cause odd, unpredictable failures > of your database. Uh... what? Locking isn't done by the filesystem but by applications (which certainly can decide to not lock a file when opening it). And no one in his right mind would ever have a virus scanner access the files of a running database, regardless of operating system or filesystem. Regards Angar Wiechers -- "The Mac OS X kernel should never panic because, when it does, it seriously inconveniences the user." --http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
