Re: Oracle and NFS

From: Chuck Hamilton <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:09:22 -0400
Message-ID: <7evlktoa56jab7nudu1m1dnubb73t6cvuq@4ax.com>

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:39:21 GMT, nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:22:13 -0500, "Thomulus" <t_l_crider_at_my-deja.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Okay, I'm just wondering why one would or would not want to run oracle
>>(datafiles, control files, redologs, oracle_home) over NFS?
>

Oracle want's to have control of the writes. When it writes a block to disk, it wants to guarantee that the block is really written to disk. NSF file systems don't guarantee that. That opens the possibility of an unrecoverable database. Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 08:09:22 CDT