Sean,

Thanks for your input. Your suggestion to use an external SCSI drive array
is most similar to my original idea so far...Do you have any recommendations
for vendors? I'm a little bit familiar with Winchester Systems, but I'm not
sure who else might be a good vendor for that sort of thing.

Best Regards,

David Montgomery
montgomery@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leyne, Sean [mailto:sleyne@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:13 PM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] Firebird and Network Attached Storage?
>
>
> David,
>
> Running the database from a network/shared source is not an available
> option (perhaps with FB2 superserver). Even if it where technically
> feasible, I would not recommend it -- too much possibility for database
> corruption due to loss of network connection. It's one thing for a
> client to loose connection to the server, the server will rollback the
> transaction/changes -- no harm, no foul. It is quite another for a
> server to get 5 out of 10 disk updates! There is not such thing as a
> transaction for network disk updates -- that's what database servers are
> for.
>
> Bottom line: DON'T DO IT!
>
> Having thought through these issues for a major customer install, which
> is about to start up, I would recommend:
>
> Two identical server boxes with a system/boot drive connected to a data
> RAID using either accessible drive bays or an external RAID sub-system.
> In that way the server performance will be optimal while still providing
> redundancy -- take drives out of one box insert/connect to other and go.
>
>
> Sean
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