Re: symbolic links

It works fine. You can do all sorts of things like that. But don't try to put the database on NFS-mounted file systems. If you do, you end up using a I-Net connection to the machine where the database is really hosted. This is because of locking problems if you do it otherwise. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> }From informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu Wed Jan 24 14:54:06 1996 }From: jkormann@beast.Trenton.EDU (Joseph Kormann) }Subject: symbolic links }Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 20:47:40 GMT }To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu }X-Informix-List-To: eu-informix-distr@inflon.informix.com }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.20571> } } }Right now we have our database as a drive on a HP-UX and we're running }out of space. One solution that we came up with was to copy certain files }to another drive and use symbolic links to access them. We're using }Standard Engine. } }If anyone has tried this with success or no success, I'd appreciate any }thing they can tell us. } }Thanks, }Joseph } }jkormann@rfbd.org -- "Come read with us!" }