On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Gil Hale <gil .at. gilhale .D.O.T com> wrote:
> Mike (and Ted), thank you both for bringing this up as a potential issue,
> and for offering a solid course of correction.
Stay tuned. We're not done with this discussion yet, not by a long stretch.
Open file, lock, write record, close file is so... FoxBase.
We have VFP apps up and running 18 hours a day that don't get shut
off, ever, and a Mere Mortals framework that leaves lots of files
open, on a Windows server. That's the Right Way to do things.
Open/close operations are enormously expensive in terms of I/O and
time.
Mike, you're not wrong, you just need to update a bit. Samba has grown
leaps and bounds since 2.0 you were probably using back then. Specific
fixes mentioning FoxPro are in the Samba change logs.
I'm running Samba version 3.0.23a-1.fc4.1, yeah, time to upgrade the
distro, and have been running with six or seven people hammering away
at this application for three years. Win98, Win2000 and WinXP. No
Vista Allowed :)
> This likely prevented me from having some really bad days
Pilot test and evaluate your app, of course, but I think you'll find
Samba a more reliable and stable and perhaps even faster platform.
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Ted Roche
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