Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:57, Greg Copeland wrote: >>Ext2 & 3 should be okay. XFS (very sure) and JFS (reasonably sure) >>should also be okay...IIRC. NFS and SMB are probably problematic, but I >>can't see anyone really wanting to do this. > > Hmm. Whereas I can't see many people putting their database files on an > NFS mount, I can readily see them using pg_dump to one, and pg_dump is > the program where large files are really likely to be needed.
I wouldn't totally discount using NFS for large databases. Believe it or not, with an Oracle database and a Network Appliance for storage, NFS is exactly what is used. We've found that we get better performance with a (properly tuned) NFS mounted NetApp volume than with attached storage on our HPUX box with several 100+GB databases. Joe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
