Re: Oracle IFS

Hi All,

Oracle iFS is, of course, much slower in standard operations, such as file copying, saving and retrieving, but...
It has really great features for searching as well as more protocols to access files (smb, nfs, http, webdav, and more). Another nice feature is customized "smart" file system, where you can program it's behaviors such as presenting the same data in different formats as needed (dxf as bmp or jpg when user don't have dxf viewer, for example). It may be integrated well with Oracle Workflow. iFS implements "out of the box" file versioning and chek-in, check-out.

All backup problems go to database backup. However, it is not so flexible as regular file backups - it's questionable to restore only one file from the past and so on.

Samba is free. iFS is included free of charge in Oracle Server (both EE and SE).

Samba works on *NIX. iFS works on both Windows NT and UNIX/LINUX.

In other words, need a regular file system - go with Samba. ;)

Regards.

Alexandre Gorbatchev

Oracle DBA/Developer, OCP
Avermann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Alexandre.Gorbatchev_at_avermann.de
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