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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by smharris65 on Friday July 29, 2011 @07:40PM (#2824295)
Can anyone provide more info when the site says "...the file locking logic of many network filesystems implementation contains bugs (on both Unix and Windows)"?
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Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed... by grandpa on Friday July 29, 2011 @09:36PM (#2824565)
They generally relate to NFS - e.g., Linux fcntl() used to lock NFS files only locally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Problems

Windows CIFS shares are fine and always have been AFAIK.

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