Re: Can database files be NFS mounted.

Charles Jardine <cj10_at_cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>Is it OK for the files which make up an Oracle database to be
>NFS mounted, or must they be on discs directly attached to
>the server machine?
>
>I have always believed that NFS mounting of database files was
>forbidden. However, I cannot now find any reference to this
>restriction in the documentation. I am sure that I once read it
>somewhere (perhaps back in Oracle 6 days).
>
>I would be very grateful if anyone can give a definitive answer
>to this question (particularly with a documentation reference).
>
>Charles Jardine - Univ. of Cambridge (UK) Computing Service

I've never tried it but I would think this would be a bad idea just for performance reasons, both for the database and the network. You'll probably suck up all your bandwidth, not to mention that few networks are going to be as fast as a local disk drive.

Why not create a test database and try it? Make sure to test everything though: queries, updates, backup & recovery, etc. If you do, please post the results. I'd be interested in hearing what happened

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