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From: trt@rti.UUCP (Thomas Truscott)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Problems with Informix in an NFS environment
Summary: NFS is a disease, Freedomnet is the cure
Keywords: Informix, NFS
Message-ID: <3201@rti.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 01:10:58 GMT
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Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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> >We have a NFS network with one server and several diskless clients. Our
> >problem is that we cannot run Informix from our clients. ...
> 
> That's because Informix doesn't believe in NFS record locking. ...

I suspect Informix doesn't believe in the correctness of
NFS file caching, either.

I suggest you junk NFS and run Freedomnet instead.  Several customers
have used Informix over Freedomnet for years with zip problems.
AT&Ts RFS would probably do okay too,
but I suspect RFS is not available on your favorite machines.

Also, Freedomnet allows "true remote execution",
which means that if any of your machines has Informix
they all do.  Very handy if your Informix is on a Sun
but you have a bunch of Dec machines too.
(This is useful for more than just Informix.
For example, if *any* of your machines has a Korn Shell,
you can make it your login shell.  That's what I do here,
so kind of HP-UX to give me a ksh server!)

Sorry this is a commercial, but this Non-Faithful-Semantics
stuff really ticks me off sometimes.  For more info on Freedomnet
contact Tom Warren, wtw@rti.rti.org, (919) 541-6110.
	Tom Truscott
P.S. You don't have to junk NFS.  Run both and take your choice :-)

Hmm, I guess I need a disclaimer:  These are my opinions exclusively.