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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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> 
> 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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