Lookup across drives

[Nancy Palmquist]

John Esak wrote:
>> Robert,
>> I don't think that is correct. PFDSK can not be set in a way that will let
>> you do lookups across differeing PFDIRS.
>>
>> Too bad...
>>
>> John
> 
> Let me clarify that... I didn't mean that PFDSK can't be set to multiple
> drives. Yes, you can set PFDSK to multiple drives, but the PFDIR and PFDATA
> variables would have to match exactly and there would have to be no
> duplications of filePro filenames to do this successfully.
> 
> John


John,

I hate to say this but this is a bit incorrect.  Filenames can be 
duplicated if you need to have some stuff here and some stuff there.

If I set up like this:

c:\filepro\customers\map
c:\filepro\customers\screen.0
c:\filerpo\customers\input.prc


M:\filepro\customers\key
M:\filepro\customers\data
M:\filepro\customers\index.A


with PFDSK=CM
PFDATA=C:
PFPROG=c:\fp

This would work great.  I have tested this with Unix and Windows and the 
primary location will require the map.

If the M: drive is also seen by UNIX with samba or something similar, 
the Unix version of file would have its own folder with the map and 
processes and would have the key stuff on its second location.

/appl/filepro/customers/map
/appl/filepro/customers/screen.0
/appl/filepro/customers/prc.input


/u/appl/filepro/customers/key
/u/appl/filepro/customers/data
/u/appl/filepro/customers/index.A

PFDSK=/;/u
PFDATA=/appl

If the M: the windows computer sees is the /u/appl folder on the unix 
system this will work and both systems will lock records correctly.

Both systems will update the files and indexes correctly.

I recall that the lockfile was always placed on the first drive so they 
would not be able to see each others files for that.  A small issues.

I also do not remember what happened when I rebuilt the indexes.  I 
think it put them back on the C: or the /appl mount, depending on which 
system did it, but I do not recall for certain.  I do KNOW that if it is 
put on the shared drive it will update correctly.

This requires a filesystem that works with samba or facetwin or 
something similar.

I have this type of system in place to allow 3 unix servers to share a 
few setup files.  Also, these 3 unix servers can see data that can also 
be seen from a windows server behind a firewall.  I throw data into a 
file and the windows side can get it out of the file.

Hope this helps.

Nancy




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