Re: Oracle datafiles across an NFS

Andy Chan <chanandy_at_hk.super.net> wrote:

>NFS is a stateless communication procotol and therefore it is of
>NO guarantee a "though-to-be" checkpointed write request has actually got
>onto physical disk. If your redologs are on NFS as well, then committed
>transactions can be disappeared if your systems crash at the "right"
>time.
 

>I hope your database isn't mission critical, good luck !!
 

>Andy :)
>

No, it isn't. It is a development database. The performance is not so hot, but so far ( several months ) that is the only problem.

Where were all you guys when I wanted to know more about creating datafiles on NFS drives? If I had known all this about NFS I would have pushed harder for some more local drives.

Jared
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