Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Ralf Mattes wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:05:41PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> >   Also NFSv2 is limited to 2GB, even if the client and server have no
> > issues.  It is a protocol thing that is fixed in NFSv3.  I doubt that
> > anyone is putting their postgres databases on a NFS server, but you never
> > know.
>
> It would be a bad idea to put the database on NFS but the paragraph
> talks about possible problems during pg_dump and it doesn't seem
> too unreasonable to dump a database to an NFS-mounted area.

  Well NetApp has gone through quite a bit of work getting their NFS
filers Oracle and MS-SQL certified.  There are extensive tech notes on the
Netapp site about Oracle and MS-SQL on NFS servers.

> Ralf Mattes
>
> P.S: Happy new year :-)


Tom