Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide
Date
Msg-id 200101022139.QAA05843@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide  (Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>)
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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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