I wrote: >Jeff Janes wrote: >>>> All that said, there has always been a recommendation of caution around >>>> using NFS as a backing store for PG, or any RDBMS.. >>> >>> I know that Oracle recommends it - they even built an NFS client >>> into their database server to make the most of it. >> >> Last I heard (which has been a while), Oracle supported specific brand named implementations of NFS, >> and warned against any others on a data integrity basis. > > I couldn't find any detailed information, but it seems that only certain > NFS devices are supported. For the record: Oracle support told me that all NFS is supported on Linux, regardless of the device. "Supported" does not mean "recommended", of course. Yours, Laurenz Albe
