Re: Network Storage Devices / NFS ... - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Matthew D. Fuller
Subject Re: Network Storage Devices / NFS ...
Date
Msg-id 20050603034908.GC3092@over-yonder.net
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In response to Re: Network Storage Devices / NFS ...  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:45:08AM -0300 I heard the voice of
Marc G. Fournier, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> >
> >If nothing has them open (fstat or lsof or something) they should
> >be safe to delete (but don't blame me if it blows up!).
>
> This is what I was thinking two (around safeness to delete) ... to
> be absolutely certain, doing a quick maintenance shutdown for the
> postmaster, remove all .nfs* files and then restarting should be
> safe too ...

Ah, I knew there had to be a better explanation around...
<http://www.webservertalk.com/archive211-2005-2-891673.html> seems to
cover it pretty well.

Yah, if they're in that directory, it's pretty much a given that the
postmaster was the only program touching them (and if it was anything
else, you probably don't care about it).  So, shutting down and
deleting the files should take care of it.


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