Re: Multiple-onlines with shared disk?

Andrew Burt writes: |> We have two online licenses at this point (for the same machine): A |> development licencse and a runtime license. Indeed, we have two sets of |> tapes, serial numbers, etc. |> |> I read the section about multiple residency in the online admin manual, and it |> makes clear how to get two completely separate servers going, but what I'd like |> to do (because of various contraints) is *share* the data between the |> servers. The manual doesn't mention this, only obliquely mentions that one |> would want separate chunks. |> |> Ok, but, suppose I *want* to share the chunks (mainly since we have about |> 7Gb of data on 10Gb of disk space; so we can't have two complete copies, even |> if we wanted to, which we don't, since the development code needs to see the |> changes the production side sees, etc. etc. etc.). So my question is, will |> the world END if I share the chunks, rootdbs and all? |> |> (I called tech-support, by the way, and TSMan's answer was he "thought |> so", they can share, but he didn't really seem to quite know what he was |> talking about judging from the rest of his answer. I suppose I could pursue |> it further there, but I'm much more a fan of the net for genuine answers.) NO! This will NOT work, since there is no coordination between two OnLine instances for things like log buffers, checkpoints, etc. You WILL wind up with a corrupted database if you attempt to share chunks amongst different OnLine systems. As per the runtime vs. development: there is no such thing as a runtime server. A server is a server. However, when you buy runtime tools, you are given a price break on your server. The functionality of the server remains the same. If both runtime and development are on the same machine, you can simply use the same server. You will NOT be in violation of your contract if you have paid for a development license. Dave