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Mounting Virtual Drives as Physical Drives in Windows? 102

Posted by Cliff
from the but-what-about-the-DMCA dept.
Bombcar asks: "Samba 3.0 is an excellent CIFS server, but there are some limitations. For one, you can get a networked mapped drive, but some programs (Oracle, Exchange) refuse to run on a mapped drive, but only on local drives. I know there are some closed source (read: expensive) drivers that allow a SMB share to appear to be a physical disk. Is there any equivalent in the OSS community? What I want to be able to do is mount a share from a Linux server under Windows 2000 and have it appear as if it were a local disk. This will allow many programs that refuse (for what ever reason) to use anything but physical drives to access the network." Might such software be seen as a 'circumvention device' as specified by the DMCA? The submittor mentions that there are companies in this market already, but that doesn't mean that it will remain safe.
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  • Locking (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Samus (1382) on Wednesday November 12, 2003 @09:35PM (#7460210) Journal
    One reason that those server programs refuse to run from network drives is locking. Last I read there wasn't near as fine grained locking available from a network drive as from a local disk. Plus the performance seems like it would just be awful. Can you imagine how long a query would take on a 1 gig table that had to do a table scan? Yuck.

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