Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Databases on NFS shares
Author Helen Borrie
At 05:00 PM 14/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>At 10.51 14/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Helen,
> >
> > The risk is simple. A database on a share will be corrupted
> >if it is opened by the system that "owns" the disk and the one
> >that "shares" it. Not may be corrupted. Will be corrupted.
>
>Can't in this case we open the file with the "deny all" sharing attribute
>so that we will be the
>only one that can access the file?
>I think that in this manner the file integrity will be sure except for
>network problems
>of course ;)

Well, my prejudices tell me that one filesystem's system can't set
attributes on another system's filesystem. So fbserver on host A can't
open database file on host B with exclusive access...

Comments, anyone?
Helen