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DNSB · 03-25-2023, 10:55 PM

A very bad idea. Sharing data from within a Docker container is not fun even after you have the Docker volumes setup. If you had your calibre instance installed in Linux, accessing a calibre database from two calibre instances is a great path to database corruption. If you were using calibre installed in Linux, you might be able to get away with this for a while sharing the calibre library over the network and making sure that one calibre instance was shutdown before the other was started. Even there, you are likely to run into the issues with running calibre with it's database on a network share.

And yes, people have gotten away with this for fairly long times. Then they show up here whinging that my database has problems, my libraries have disappeared, etc.

03-25-2023, 10:55 PM	#2
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,708 Karma: 169712580 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	A very bad idea. Sharing data from within a Docker container is not fun even after you have the Docker volumes setup. If you had your calibre instance installed in Linux, accessing a calibre database from two calibre instances is a great path to database corruption. If you were using calibre installed in Linux, you might be able to get away with this for a while sharing the calibre library over the network and making sure that one calibre instance was shutdown before the other was started. Even there, you are likely to run into the issues with running calibre with it's database on a network share. And yes, people have gotten away with this for fairly long times. Then they show up here whinging that my database has problems, my libraries have disappeared, etc. Last edited by DNSB; 03-25-2023 at 10:58 PM.