[gridengine users] maintaining spooldb/sge_job

[William Bryce]

I second what Dave just pointed out below :-)  The documentation seems
pretty clear to me.

Bill.


On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Dave Love <d.love at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

> Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Some googling on Berkeley DB shows that it is safe for concurrent access
> by
> > different users, so it should be safe to run db_checkpoint without
> shutting
> > down the qmaster.
>
> That depends.  OGS changed the spool handling so that the database is
> opened with the DB_PRIVATE flag, which is definitely not safe.  See
> <
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17276_01/html/api_reference/C/envopen.html#open_DB_PRIVATE
> >.
> You need the choice so that you can at least do live backups from other
> filesystems, as described in
> <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/htmlman/htmlman5/bootstrap.html>, but that's
> only in the development version currently.
>
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