[erlang-questions] Can we use same mnesia schema on different nodes

[ARUN P]

> Hi Daniel
>
>     Thank you for the valuable comment, but i have a doubt, since the 
> dets operations are not transactional in the middle editing schema.DAT 
> file, if my application gets restart, will it corrupt the schema.DAT 
> file and if happens so how can i safe guard the data.?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Arun
>
> On Thursday 13 October 2016 08:33 PM, Dániel Szoboszlay wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When the name of the node changes, you need to repair the Mnesia 
>> schema, as it contains the names of the nodes where the tables belong.
>>
>> Before starting Mnesia open the schema.DCD or schema.DAT file 
>> (depending on the storage type of your schema). It will be either a 
>> disk_log or a dets file, containing {schema, Tab, Opts} entries. 
>> Among the options you will find the node(s) where the table shall 
>> exist. Simply change the old node name to the new node name there, 
>> and save the new schema under its original file name. Then you can 
>> start Mnesia and all your data will be there.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 at 12:55 ARUN P <arunp@REDACTED 
>> <mailto:arunp@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>          I have a hardware device, will call it SCC ( System Control
>>     Card )
>>     on which an erlang application is running which uses mnesia as the
>>     database. The hardware device is a distributed and portable one
>>     and its
>>     IP address is dynamically generated based on some physical
>>     conditions.
>>     ie, My system set up contains 10 Racks and each Rack has SCC
>>     connected
>>     to it, and based on the Rack on which SCC is connected
>>     application will
>>     dynamically generate the IP address ie; the IP address of SCC
>>     connected
>>     on Rack -1 will be 10.1.1.1 and the erlang node name will be
>>     SCC@REDACTED <mailto:SCC@REDACTED> and the IP address of SCC
>>     connected on Rack -2 will be
>>     10.1.1.2 the erlang node name will be SCC@REDACTED
>>     <mailto:SCC@REDACTED> .
>>
>>     The problem domain is :
>>
>>          In some situations i will be replacing SCC of Rack-1 to
>>     Rack-2 and
>>     as soon as i replace , IP address of SCC will change to 10.1.1.2
>>     and so
>>     the erlang node. In this situation I am unable to access the data
>>     stored
>>     in mnesia when the SCC was present in Rack-1 and this is because
>>     the on
>>     Rack-2 application will create a new schema based on the new
>>     erlang node
>>     name. But the prime objective of my system is data persistence, even
>>     though I replace the device on any Rack, I should be able to
>>     access the
>>     previously stored data. Can anybody kindly suggest me how to
>>     solve this
>>     issue.
>>
>>     - All the tables and schema created are disc copy .
>>
>>     Thanks in advance,
>>     Arun P
>>
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