Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like NFS is a viable solution nowadays. I a still going to shoot for using iSCSI, given it is a block-level protocol rather than file-level, it seems to me it would be better suited to database I/O. On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Stuart Bishop wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Bryan Keller <bryanck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am considering running a Postgres with the database hosted on a NAS via NFS. I have read a few things on the Web saying this is not recommended, as it will be slow and could potentially cause data corruption. > > Its not recommended if you have a crap NFS implementation. I think it > was about 10 years ago I ran Oracle under Solaris with a Netapp for > storage. Rock solid, supported configuration, and actually > outperformed using local disk. Hopefully the open source NFS clients > have caught up by now - if you see problem reports or recommendations, > pay attention to the platform and implementation rather than the > protocol. > > > -- > Stuart Bishop <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://www.stuartbishop.net/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
