Re: Postgres on NAS/NFS

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Bryan Keller <bryanck@gmail.com> 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
sayingthis 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.


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