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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> And there's the issue that with windows / NTFS that when one process
> opens a file for read, it locks it for all other users.  This means
> that things like virus scanners can cause odd, unpredictable failures
> of your database.
>
>   
Can you provide some justification for this?

James