Re: [Firebird-devel] WNet and XNet

[Jim S. <ja...@ne...>]

Aleksey Karyakin wrote:

>What's the reason of this 'feature' besides cheating and confusing?
>  
>
It's a parallel to the INet remote protocol's examination of NFS mounts 
and automatic redirection to a server.  It's purpose is to support 
databases resident on remote mounted file systems.  Surely you will 
agree that if several machines try to open the same database the 
database will get trashed.  There are other ways to handle this 
situation, configuration files to force redirection and locks to prevent 
trashing the database, but this approach is defensible.

That said, however, I don't think we want to retain WNet just for that 
feature.  I'm content to let the first machine that can legitimately 
attach the database do so and let anyone else who tried to get an 
error.  I just want to make damn sure that they do get an error.


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Jim Starkey
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