Re: NFS mounted database

In article <36b5e0$5sh@crchh748.bnr.ca>, maury@bnr.ca writes: |> When I talked to Informix support, they said no. They would not |> support a database on an NFS mount. Period. I hope they have |> changed this tune since, but thats what I got when I wanted to |> do it. |> |> |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |> |Maury French | I thought they were angels, but to my | |> |email maury@bnr.ca | my surprise, we climbed aboard their | |> |phone 214-684-2603 | starship, we headed for the skies! | |> | | Dennis DeYoung, STYX. | |> | My favorite song.--> | Used without permission, but with the | |> | | utmost respect. | |> |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| The reason for this is that locking CANNOT be implemented over the currently used versions of NFS... I beleive the newest version of the NFS specs do address this issue but I don't know of any vendors that support this version of NFS. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Reetz reetz@ncar.ucar.edu 3450 Mitchell Lane UNIX(tm) Operations Manager (303)497-8881(V) 497-8501(Fax) Building 1 UCAR - University Corporation For Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO 80301