Qlik Replicate: Amazon Elastic File Sytem (EFS) not supported for Linux Deployments

[KellyHobson]

Using Amazon Elastic File Sytem (EFS) instead of EBS in a Linux cluster may lead to:

• issues stopping and killing defunct tasks, including by restarting services and manually stopping the tasks
• problems accessing log files

Resolution:

Qlik Replicate does not support EFS due to its reliance on SQLite to store configuration information.

The reason why SQLite3 doesn't work on Amazon EFS is due to a limitation in the way EFS handles file locking. SQLite3 relies on file locking to ensure that only one process can write to a database at a time. However, EFS does not support file locking in the same way that a local file system does.

Environment

Qlik Replicate 

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