Re: Oracle and NFS

I missed this thread. I agree with Tom. At my previous company, we used Network Appliance filers to store datafiles. Never had any problem due to NFS (which is TCP based, not UDP as you used to use). Refresh your knowledge of NFS. The definitive book on NFS (and NIS) from O'Reilly, published before version 3 came out, is way outdated.

But you should not use NFS on your own UNIX boxes set up by your inhouse system admins. Oracle won't support you.

Yong Huang
yong321_at_yahoo.com

Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com> wrote in message news:<9idogn01okc_at_drn.newsguy.com>...
> >NFS is not supported by Oracle.
>
> with certain NAS vendors it is. see
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> http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/storage/index.html?content.html
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> for info.
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> >You will generate gobs of network traffic.
>
> these things are typically wired to the boxes they need to support -- they are
> actually very fast and highly reliable....
>
> This ain't NFS as we used to know....
Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 22:44:02 CDT