From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc: Ralf Mattes <rm@mh-freiburg.de>
Cc: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:39:37 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200101022139.QAA05843@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101011920250.16414-100000@misery.sdf.com>
>
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I can only imagine how they got databases working through NFS. Having
> > the backend on one server and the files on another is really quite risky.
>
> Well, both Microsoft and Oracle support NFS mounted database device
> files with NetApp filers.
Quite a trick. NFS, being state-less, is really a bad platform for such
things. I know there is NFS locking, but even that is not 100%, if I
remember correctly.
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