Re: NFS performance tuning

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: NFS performance tuning
Date: 2003-09-12 00:26:06
Message-ID: 200309120026.h8C0Q6f13832@candle.pha.pa.us
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Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Is it considered safe to run postgres over nfs if the sync option is used?

No, because NFS is not atomic in its operations. However, a number of
people are running PostgreSQL over NFS to network attached storage
devices, and it seems to run fine --- I just am not sure what will
happen if the network attached storage devices goes down.

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