| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Samplonius <tom(at)sdf(dot)com>, 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 21:51:42 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.31.0101021750510.672-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > 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.
NFS is state-less if you use UDP connections ... most modern Unices
support TCP NFS as well, providing you a stateful connection ...
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