X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CC911F60B1 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:02:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15132-08 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:02:46 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from wolff.to (wolff.to [66.93.197.194]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FFC911F60E7 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:02:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 15627 invoked by uid 500); 27 Apr 2006 13:05:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:05:55 -0500 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Ketema Harris Cc: Michael Stone , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Running on an NFS Mounted Directory Message-ID: <20060427130555.GE6159@wolff.to> Mail-Followup-To: Bruno Wolff III , Ketema Harris , Michael Stone , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <20060427124455.GF31328@mathom.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200604/636 X-Sequence-Number: 18720 On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:57:51 -0400, Ketema Harris wrote: > performance from the db. I also would hopefully then not have to do > periodic backups from the db server to some other type of storage. Is this > not a good idea? How bad of a performance hit are we talking about? Also, You always need to do backups if you care about your data. What if someone accidental deletes a lot of data? What if someone blows up your data center (or there is a flood)?