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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix over NFS
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.081247.7715@erbe.se>
Date: 26 Feb 91 08:12:47 GMT
References: <1991PMSat.23.2644@dircon.co.uk> <2868@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden
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gordon@barbados.uk.Sun.COM (G Rehling, Sun UK) responds to someone having
problems using Informix on an NFS-mounted file system:

>Sun's NetISAM has X/OPEN based interface i.e. C-ISAM compatible, which  does
>support NFS and provides much higher throughput than other ISAM packages
>which do
>run across NFS. Contact your local Sun Sales office for more details - however
>this probably won't fix your informix problem, sorry.

This does not help the chap with the Informix problems. He was using SCO
UNIX/386 on a PC-type system, and unless things have changed very recently,
Sun NetISAM (a fine product, admittedly) runs on Sun machines only.

-- 
Robert Claeson

Disclaimer: I represent myself and not my employer.


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