Re: can postgres run well on NFS mounted partitions?

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "'John McKown *EXTERN*'" <john(dot)archie(dot)mckown(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: can postgres run well on NFS mounted partitions?
Date: 2015-11-13 10:27:31
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B50FE3E1C@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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John McKown wrote:
> All of the above make we curious about using NFS for the data files, but having the WAL files on a
> local, perhaps SSD, device.​ I am not knowledgeable about WAL. Of course, I don't know why the OP wants
> to put the database files on an NFS.

If the data file storage does not keep the promise that synced files are
actually on disk, you'd get in trouble at checkpoint time.

So if you don't trust NFS, that wouldn't be an option.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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