Re: Physical layout of a DB in RAC environment

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:28:54 -0800
Message-ID: <1075735676.506554@yasure>

John Gardner wrote:

> In message <1075476338.536329_at_yasure>, Daniel Morgan
> <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
>

>>Why? What do you think Oracle is doing internally? True we used to be 
>>advised not to NFS mount ... but that was before substantial 
>>improvements in the technology.

>
>
> Nobody ever advised against doing backups to an NFS filesystem, just against
> putting the datafiles etc on them. It's quite a reasonable way to transfer
> your backups to another server.
>
> Regards
> John Gardner
>

If I was unclear that is what I was trying to say. Oracle now NFS mounts datafiles internally and advises others to do so as well. I was not refering to backups. Sorry for any confusion.

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