| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Shadow database on a different machine |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2003-06-22T11:38:03Z |
At 10:35 AM 22/06/2003 +0000, you wrote:
space allocation and i/o are managed by the server. A server can't manage
physical space on a drive it doesn't control.
Read my other post and really get thinking about Firebird as a database
MANAGEMENT system. It's not a set of physical files each doing its own
thing. It's one big, integrated whole system. What you see from outside,
via SQL, is a very highly structured logical view of underlying stuff. The
geography of the stuff inside the database has no resemblance to it.
heLen
>Hi all,No.
>
>I'm running Firebird SuperServer 1.0.3 on a Linux Red Hat 7.3. Is it
>possible to shadow a database onto a different machine?
>If it's not, why?Because these are not "data files" but "database files" whose physical
space allocation and i/o are managed by the server. A server can't manage
physical space on a drive it doesn't control.
>If it is, how? And, how about shadowing into a mount folder which mountedNo. Same reason.
>to a
>folder on another machine?
Read my other post and really get thinking about Firebird as a database
MANAGEMENT system. It's not a set of physical files each doing its own
thing. It's one big, integrated whole system. What you see from outside,
via SQL, is a very highly structured logical view of underlying stuff. The
geography of the stuff inside the database has no resemblance to it.
heLen