Re: Oracle and NFS

Hi Yong,

   What about the performance when you used Filers?? Thanks and Regards,
Ashish

yong321_at_yahoo.com (Yong Huang) wrote in message news:<b3cb12d6.0107161944.6b9e9c99_at_posting.google.com>...
> 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 from O'Reilly, published before version 3 came out, is way outdated.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
> >
> > http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/storage/index.html?content.html
> >
> > for info.
> >
> > >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 Tue Jul 17 2001 - 09:46:19 CDT