From: David J. <dav...@ea...> - 2001-06-04 14:20:56
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Hi, NFS = network file system, the SUN/unix/linux standard method of sharing disks/directories across a network. There are many potential problems with accessing remote files, mostly due to the difficulty of making absolutely sure noone else is using it. I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone is working on this now. Unless you have specialized hardware, running the server on a machine separate from the data is likely to result in severely impaired performance. david jencks On 2001.06.04 04:55:57 -0400 Jason Butlin wrote: > A little while ago I came across a thread in this newsgroup discussing > the > issues associated with opening an Interbase database on a mounted NFS > drive. > Firstly I'm assuming that NFS stands for Novell File System. Even if this > isn't the case, I believe the general idea was to be able to open an > Interbase database residing on a server machine that wasn't running > Interbase Server itself. > > This is something that we would be extremely interested in, as some of > our > clients use Novell servers, and I was wondering if anything concrete had > come as a result of the discussion. Is this feature going to be > incorporated > into Interbase, has a project been created in order to achieve this? > > Thanks > > Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > Firebird-devel mailing list > Fir...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel > |