Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
Databases basically do not work over NFS mounted filesystems because of locking and caching issues.
Surely that's an exaggeration. http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/08/oracle-optimize.html "Oracle uses NFS to run its applications on tens of thousands of Linux servers accessing many petabytes of NetApp storage. In 2005 they had 12,000 Linux servers and 3 petabytes of NetApp storage. Today’s numbers aren’t public, but they are much larger." But yeah, it is tricky: http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2002-April/001278.html _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
