On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Even if properly setup NFS is a problem waiting to > happen, and it's not reliable storage for a database in my opinion. It reads to me that the VMware image is pulled from NFS, so as far as Pg is concerned, it is speaking to a local disk. Whether that disk is properly backed to disk is an open question. I don't know what kind of durability guarantee postgres can give you if the VM itself is read/written over a known not-100% reliable file system. That is, does the sync() call inside the VM not return until the underlying VM image data is on actual hard platters? I doubt it. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
