Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom(at)sdf(dot)com>
Cc: Ralf Mattes <rm(at)mh-freiburg(dot)de>, Michael Graff <explorer(at)flame(dot)org>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide
Date: 2001-01-02 04:00:55
Message-ID: 200101020400.XAA06848@candle.pha.pa.us
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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.

>
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Ralf Mattes wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:05:41PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > > Also NFSv2 is limited to 2GB, even if the client and server have no
> > > issues. It is a protocol thing that is fixed in NFSv3. I doubt that
> > > anyone is putting their postgres databases on a NFS server, but you never
> > > know.
> >
> > It would be a bad idea to put the database on NFS but the paragraph
> > talks about possible problems during pg_dump and it doesn't seem
> > too unreasonable to dump a database to an NFS-mounted area.
>
> Well NetApp has gone through quite a bit of work getting their NFS
> filers Oracle and MS-SQL certified. There are extensive tech notes on the
> Netapp site about Oracle and MS-SQL on NFS servers.
>
> > Ralf Mattes
> >
> > P.S: Happy new year :-)
>
>
> Tom
>
>

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