Patrick writes:

>Here is my scenario.  I have an applicaiton that will run on several
>nodes, but I want them all to access the same database on a single
>node.  NS services are available.  Can you just set a file equation to
>open the DB across the network, or is it necessary to get into the
>net/ipc intrinsics?

Chris gave a good detailed explanation in his post.

My experience: Years ago, we had two systems which used RDB/RFA
and we benchmarked all image access across the network to another
system at exactly 50% thru-put of local db access.

Since disk was very expensive we lived with it. Now, I would probably
replicate the db's on each system.

Of course YMMV.

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