Mark Hahn wrote:
Our developers had that issue of inconsistent file system view in
RHEL
based systems, some of it is solved by disabling dir list caching,
another
by using noac,
well, developers should be smart enough to know what FS they're using,
and how it's intended to behave. turning off AC is a nice option, but
smarter is to leave it on and not try to cause race conditions.
... or to catch them and fix them ...
(I expect that such race-friendly behavior will fail on some other
non-NFS filesystems, though probably harder to trigger.)
what the other was doing was writing simultaneously to the
same file partitioned over several nodes, I told this is probably not the
right way to do file writing. apparently he used to do it in Sun
Solaris and
it worked flawlessly.
I would spank any developer who said "but it works on platform X"!
developers must be aware of the spec, not merely what they can get away
with somewhere, sometime. of course, this is the thinking behind apps
having "supported" platforms - just a fancy way of saying
"no, we don't know what standards-conformance we need, or how we violate
the standard, but here's a few places we haven't yet noticed any
bad-enough bugs".
*sigh* If only we could "spank" them. In ISV circles, there is a meme
running about that Linux == RHEL*. So they code everything to that, and
not to the LSB.
Note: this is one thing that the Windows folks sorta kinda do right.
There is a "spec" to some degree, and everyone can kinda sorta write to
it.
Then again, when you completely dominate something, you can dictate to
users. We have a long standing IE problem with rendering forms in
tables, everyone else can do it right, and the code checks out as w3c
compliant ... oh, never mind, not worth trying to get IE to talk standards.
Standards only work when all players follow them. They also need to be
simple enough to follow. Making a standard impossible to follow helps
no end user.
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