[Metakit] Corrupted database over network - WinNT

[Pat Thoyts]

<Hector at coollector.com> writes:

>> As I mentioned in an earlier post -- the solution is to ensure that
>> metakit files on network shares are opened for exclusive access. You
>> can write your own c4_FileStrategy implementation to handle this and
>> use it in the c4_Storage constructor. The PathIsNetworkPath Win32 API
>> is also a useful function here.
>
>No, you can't prevent an antivirus from scanning your file. Just
>looking at the file attributes is enough to corrupt it (if it's
>followed by another commit). At least, it is what I observe with my
>program. If you too have an application that can commit to a metakit
>file through a network, please make the test and tell me if you
>observe the same corruption. Maybe it's my program's fault, but
>sincerely I doubt it.

I can't post you the whole lot but I can give you the re-implementation
of c4_FileStrategy that we use. We have some 32GB of data in over
18000 files on a Windows network shared storage and none of them are
corrupt and people do use them over the network share.

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