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 the access is indeed exclusive. -- Daniel On 10/5/2017 1:02:44 AM, "Elmar Haneke [email protected] [firebird-support]" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >>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 - and the .fdb >>certainly counts. > >NFS is an networking system not part of virtualbox. >Virtualbox has an mechanism of its own to allow gests access to host >filesystem you shoulkd try that instead. > >>So for my use case - I have a single Firebird server instance. There >>will never be more than one copy of Firebird running. All write and >>99.99% read access to the .fdb would be through that single Firebird >>instance (except for automated remote backup operations running on the >>host). > >It's not an good idea to backup database file while firebird-server is >running on that file. You should use firebirds backup functionality >instead. > >>Am I "safe", possibly even correct, in using RemoteFileOpenAbility in >>this use case? > >This option is for pepole knowing what they are doing - those pepole >usually do not ask if it is ok. > > >Elmar > > > >------------------------------------ >Posted by: Elmar Haneke <[email protected]> >------------------------------------ > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Documentation item >on the main (top) menu. Try FAQ and other links from the left-side >menu there. > >Also search the knowledgebases at >http://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/ > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo Groups Links > > >
