>>>By the way, I forgot to mention something, we still need to test this but... apparently one of the improvements of SMB3 is transparent failover, so when the active node in the cluster goes down, currently foxpro dies for is not cluster aware, but we read that SMB3 will keep the shares alive in the client after a failover, which in theory will keep foxpro running (we are going to test this probably next week)
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>>Thanks - it'll be interesting to see the results!
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>So, last week during maintenance (all users out of foxpro applications) we force a cluster failover while we kept some foxpro applications running in both Windows 8 and 7 machines, after the failover all foxpro applications running on Windows 7 were dead while the ones on windows 8 continued working without any apparent issue. Of course this was a very simplistic test, and we were not updating any tables, but the results were promising, next maintenance we might try again this time writing (from windows 8) to non production tables to see what happens

Most interesting - thanks for the update!