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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Problems with Informix in an NFS environment
Keywords: Informix, NFS
Message-ID: <845@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 6 Oct 89 08:59:46 GMT
References: <1766@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Sweden
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In article <1766@thebes.Thalatta.COM> weigelt@Thalatta.COM (Mikael Weigelt) writes:

>We have a NFS network with one server and several diskless clients. Our
>problem is that we cannot run Informix from our clients. To get our
>application running we need to remote login to the server and start it
>from there.

That's because Informix doesn't believe in NFS record locking. The C-ISAM
library actually checks if the file system you're running on is an NFS
file system and, if this is the case, complains and refuses to do any work.
Furthermore, Informix can only deal with one file system type at a time
(I believe it's a compile time option). So, on our system which is using
multiple file system types, we can only use Informix on one of them,
namely the old System V 1K file system. We have all our file systems except
for the root file system in BSD 8K format...

And now a question for you guys using RFS: Does Informix run over it?

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
	  ERBE DATA AB