From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Update section on NFS
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:17:08 -0400
Message-ID: <b49cf673-c14b-094c-3059-39d3279fb635@joeconway.com> (raw)
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On 4/24/19 4:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-04-23 18:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> On 2019-04-23 16:15, Joe Conway wrote:
>>>> I don't think so. Not sure if you have an account at Red Hat, but this
>>>> ticket covers it:
>>>> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/48199
>>
>>> That discusses the equally-named export options on the NFS server, not
>>> the mount options on the NFS client.
>>
>> Well, the DBA might also be the NFS server's admin, so I think we ought
>> to explain the correct settings on both ends.
>
> Right, the slight confusion in this thread indicates that this is worth
> explaining further.
And the confusion is aided by the fact that prior to NFS 3 sync *was*
necessary on the client side. Yeah I know, ancient, so maybe only old
folks like me get confused ;-), but NFS 2 was probably current when this
was originally written.
See: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
"safe asynchronous writes."
> New version attached.
Looks reasonable to me.
Joe
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