I do not think there is an easy answer whether or not nfs mounts are reliable. IT depends upon your organization infrastructe teams. I have worked at organizations were my nfs mounts were completely unreliable. My current organization I cannot remember the last time I have had an issue with my nfs mounts.
Thanks, Matt
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I would not have an issue with monitoring scripts… However, anything diagnostic or the like I’d keep on local storage…
From: Michael Cunningham [mailto:napacunningham_at_gmail.com]
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Robert, how would you feel about having a library of monitoring scripts on an nfs mount? I do this so that scripts are available on every Oracle server. I also backup config files, etc. to this mount making it easy for me to scan, in a single directory, something like all cron backup files to see where something is running. It's these things why I feel the nfs mount serves a great benefit. And many others...
Michael
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Robert Freeman <rfreeman_at_businessolver.com> wrote:
Mike,
We Run our RAC databases using NFS as the shared media for datafiles. We have yet to have a failure because of NFS. We don’t use shared software directories however, just local directories.
My personal preference is for local software.
RF
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Subject: Is nfs reliable?
I had someone tell me today that nfs should not be relied on and it should not be used for a shared mount that needed to be reliably available.
Has anyone ever hear this before?
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