Mark O'Donohue wrote:

> Helen Borrie wrote:
>
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>>So - guess my next question.
>>
>>I'll help. "Why in glory do we have a conf parameter to PERMIT it???"
>>
>
> nfs drives are normal for general user usage, often you don't have root
> access to the nfs server and since user areas are often exclusively from
> another nfs machine, it leave you with just /tmp on your workstation
> where databases will work.
>

Something I remembered, when I started this stuff, my home area was an
nfs share from an SGI machine, (in fact mine was the only linux box in
the place).

So installing a fb server on the nfs machine was obviously going to be
fairly tricky.

Cheers

Mark