At 12:21 PM 4/14/2004, Alexey Kovjazin wrote:

>I wonder why this double-edged feature (i.e., work with network drives) was
>implemented in Firebird1.5,

Because one developer thought that using Firebird was inconvenient on
networks with NFS mounted file systems. At the time there was CONSIDERABLE
discussion that the change would lead to corruption and tears before
bedtime. The developer said that most Firebird users were intelligent
enough to realize that having two servers accessing a single file without
any coordination of their activities would be a disaster. And so it
would. And so it was.

DON'T DO IT!

>It's interesting for me to see, is that corruption similar to old corruption
>caused by connection via different connection strings?

Alexey,

I'll be you dinner the next time we're within 1000km of each other that
it is very similar.

Cheers,


Ann