On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:18 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote: > That I'd be asking Oracle and your application vendor whether your proposed > setup is fully supported.
I don't think it is well supported! > Backending databases onto random network attached storage is a very bad idea I agree but this is shared on the same machine. I think that is a lt more reliable apart from other FS issues. > unless you Know What You Are Doing; and if you're on here asking then you > probably don't fall into that category. Not it in this instance! ;-) > The other poster who runs Oracle off a netapp filer is surprising to me, as > I've > had no end of issues with databases on network attached storage, but -my- > experiences > haven't been with Oracle on Netapp NFS, just MySQL on Linux NFS. In any case, > knowing > what I know about the wildly different flavours of NFS implementations, I'd > not be > putting a critical SQL DB on it (or heck, even hash tables with shared > writers!) unless > my vendor told me it was ok. OK > In short: Ask your vendors. Thats what you're paying them for. :) I will and will post back here if I get it running too! -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
