
> > > Sure, and if the system loading it can not create the 
> required symlinks
> > > because the directories don't exist, it can just skip the 
> symlink step.
> > 
> > What I meant is, would you still be able to create tablespaces on
> > systems without symlinks? That would seem to be a desirable feature.
> 
> You could create tablespaces, but you could not point them at 
> different
> drives.  The issue is that we don't store the symlink location in the
> database, just the tablespace name.

You could point them to another drive if your OS allows you to mount a 
filesystem under an arbitrary name, no ?

Andreas

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:00:44 +0200
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: Big 7.1 open items