RE: Re[2]: {Disarmed} [firebird-support] Using FB2.5 with NFS for Virtualbox VM

2017-10-09 Thread 'Paul Beach' pbe...@mail.ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
<> Simply put. As long as the database on the NFS mount cannot be accessed by another Firebird server on another system then you can use this "feature" (RemoteFileOpenAbility). Regards Paul

Re[2]: {Disarmed} [firebird-support] Using FB2.5 with NFS for Virtualbox VM

2017-10-05 Thread 'Daniel Miller' dmil...@amfes.com [firebird-support]
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

Re: {Disarmed} [firebird-support] Using FB2.5 with NFS for Virtualbox VM

2017-10-05 Thread Elmar Haneke el...@haneke.de [firebird-support]
> > > 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 -