Hi Tony I thought Oracle would use some sort of TCP/IP ports to communicate with a client end application. NFS sounds wrong unless you want to access the whole DB Binary file and its other bits (BI journals etc).
I'm not into Oracle but most RDBMS work like this: Client Software local or remote |-----TCP/IP-------| RDBMS Server Process(listening on Port X) This is true of Progress RDBMS, Hypersonic, Postgresql (in TCP/IP mode). HTH Stu On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:05, Tony Green wrote: > Passing onto the list (thanks Jill) > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Rowling, Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Oracle over NFS > > Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:45:43 +1000 > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:41, Rowling, Jill wrote: > > > The only problem I can think of is NFS timeouts clashing with any Oracle > > > timeouts. > > > If the database is not in use for some time, and NFS does its timeout thing > > > (typ 30 seconds), I would read up to see if Oracle has a shorter timeout > > > before it complains that the database is unavailable. > > > > > > > Thats the 'gotcha' that I'd thought of. > > > > > Also one of the NASs that I looked at had this terrible NFS setup where it > > > exported everything if you wanted NFS at all. Very "trusting" and not secure > > > (a Win2k box with lots of Win2k things missing from it). > > > > > > A Linux / BSD / Solaris NAS would be better than the "off-the-shelf" NASs > > > that run Windows. > > > > Yeah, I'm looking at doing a NAS with just a big box and a bunch of RAID > > disks rather than a black box one. > > > > > Why don't you just plug in an extra controller and add a disk array? You > > > would get better performance. > > > NFS is better suited to individual applications to share data or home > > > directories amongst servers. > > > > The shared aspect is the key. 2 boxes both able to access the data > > (oracle and application failover), otherwise I'd disk array it. > > > > Thanks for the insights :-) > > > > TG > -- > Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
