Re: [Firebird-devel] Opening database on a NFS drive

[Paul S. <pa...@tr...>]

Jason:

On 4 Jun 2001, at 9:55, 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.

Your close, it's Network File System, which is really a Unix protocol 
for sharing file systems across the network, now I think there are 
Novell drivers available so that ar least some Netware versions can 
have volumes mounted across NFS, at least for some Unixes.  
 
> 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?
> 

I have a client looking for this right now, so if there isn't a 
project, perhaps there should be.  It would allow FB to support un-
supported platforms, a machine with lots of RAM and little HDD could 
be plugged into an unsupported platform with lots of disk.  

Paul

Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
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