The performance of vboxsf is horrible - that's why there are so many
recommendations to use NFS or CIFS for guests. So again I'm asking if
there's any issue with accessing the .fdb via NFS - given the exclusive
access I've described.

I don't see why there would be...other than ensuring that the access is
indeed exclusive.

--
Daniel

On 10/5/2017 1:02:44 AM, "Elmar Haneke elmar@...
[firebird-support]" <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>>
>>
>>I have a single Linux host server with several Virtualbox guest VM's.
>> I've been attempting to move everything possible from the host to one
>>of the guests.
>>
>>One of the last holdovers is Firebird. The reason is I use NFS to
>>mount host folders within the guest for critical data - and the .fdb
>>certainly counts.
>
>NFS is an networking system not part of virtualbox.
>Virtualbox has an mechanism of its own to allow gests access to host
>filesystem you shoulkd try that instead.
>
>>So for my use case - I have a single Firebird server instance. There
>>will never be more than one copy of Firebird running. All write and
>>99.99% read access to the .fdb would be through that single Firebird
>>instance (except for automated remote backup operations running on the
>>host).
>
>It's not an good idea to backup database file while firebird-server is
>running on that file. You should use firebirds backup functionality
>instead.
>
>>Am I "safe", possibly even correct, in using RemoteFileOpenAbility in
>>this use case?
>
>This option is for pepole knowing what they are doing - those pepole
>usually do not ask if it is ok.
>
>
>Elmar
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