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> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I can only imagine how they got databases working through NFS. Having
> > the backend on one server and the files on another is really quite risky.
>
> Well, both Microsoft and Oracle support NFS mounted database device
> files with NetApp filers.
Quite a trick. NFS, being state-less, is really a bad platform for such
things. I know there is NFS locking, but even that is not 100%, if I
remember correctly.
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