RE: RPM Database on NFS Mount

["Eisenstein, Doug" <Doug Eisenstein geodecapital com>]

Thank you Jeff.

Does anyone know if there are plans for this? Will NFS v3.0 change anything?


My goal is to have a dozen Linux app servers connecting to a redundant file
server (nfs server). The Linux servers will be running various applications
(java, perl, emacs, PostgreSQL, etc) which are installed to the nfs mount.
Currently this works w/o the use of RPM's, however I'd prefer to utilize all
the benefits of rpming our packages.

Note: the file server is an emc device and cannot have packages locally
installed to that server (or else I wouldn't be sending this email out!)

Has anyone else run into a problem like this or suggest something to me?

Can RPM use a different database backend - such as PostgreSQL or MySQL?

My alternate solution is to keep a separate rpm database on each Linux
server, do all rpm installs from one server and then update all other rpm
databases by using the --justdb switch. However this doesn't sound like a
clean solution.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:n3npq@nc.rr.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:15 PM
To: rpm-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: RPM Database on NFS Mount


Eisenstein, Doug wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have been having trouble creating a rpm database as a non-root user on an
>nfs mount. Is this possible?
>
>I am running RH v7.2 (Kernel: 2.4.9-e.25).
>
>Here's an example:
>
>[test@server test]$ rpm --initdb --dbpath /test/local.linux.200311/rpmdb
>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
>
>If I run this same command to a local directory (/var/tmp/rpmdb) it work's
>successfully. Any suggestions?
>
>Additionally if I run the same command on a Linux server running RH 9.0
>(Kernel: 2.4.20-8) to a nfs mount running the same OS ver it works..
>
>Can there be problems with the rpm package manager in RH 7.2
>(rpm-4.0.4-7x.20) vs. RH 9.0 (rpm-4.2-0.69)?
>
>Thanks!
>  
>

You can't access an rpmdb through NFS, see details at www.sleepycat.com.

73 de Jeff



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