[Question]: multiple infinity-embedded instances connect to the same database，can it work？

[chenk-gd]

Describe your problem

Planning to use infinity on k8s, not going to use server version of infinity for some reason. However, since there are more than 1 pod copy, I am considering mounting distributed file system on the pod, so that infinity instances on different pods can access the same directory/database, and if simultaneous writes will conflict, I am considering using file locks, etc. to solve the problem, is this approach feasible?

[JinHai-CN]

I think it's not possible. Infinity is not a file 'opener'. In fact, every write to a file brings about a change in the memory state of the write instance. We wrote on instance A, and the file has changed. At this point, if you go to instance B to read, there is a high probability that you will not be able to read the content, because B will first determine whether there is an update based on the current state in memory.

[JinHai-CN]

I strongly recommend using the Infinity server version, as the new feature of Infinity 0.5.0 includes the ability to use minio as shared storage with read / write node replication capabilities, which can solve the issues with Kubernetes on Infinity