Re: [Firebird-devel] Letting FB access DB files on network share

[Ann W. H. <aha...@ib...>]

Paolo Salvan wrote:
> 
> One long-standing limitation of Windows FB is the impossibility to 
> access DB on a network share: this has been done to protect the DB from 
> corruption with Classic FB, but at least with Superserver and Embedded 
> FB, it make sense no more, as they exclusively lock the DB files they 
> access, so multiple access can't happen; also, write-trought file 
> accesses are guarranted even on network share.
> 

Are you absolutely sure that two servers running on different
machines can't both get exclusive locks on the same file on a
shared device?

Best regards,


Ann