Re: BUG #14555: EBUSY error on read() on NFS

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #14555: EBUSY error on read() on NFS
Date: 2017-02-20 05:00:47
Message-ID: c0b37e04-2e23-492f-2e9c-d46e40046aaf@hogranch.com
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On 2/19/2017 8:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> (FWIW, a lot of Postgres hackers consider NFS to be too unreliable to
> keep a database on. NFS is great, don't get me wrong, but it's got a
> very long track record of intermittent weirdness like this. If you're
> trying to get from three-nines to five-nines reliability, keeping your
> data on NFS is a serious stumbling block to getting there.)

For what its worth (about $0.02), I remember Oracle saying DO NOT USE
NFS for database storage, unless it was a NetApp Filer with a specific
set of options configured, that no other configuration was considered
robust enough for database storage.

--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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