Re: Oracle and NFS

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 9 Jul 2001 19:15:51 -0700
Message-ID: <9idogn01okc@drn.newsguy.com>

In article <jzs27.322962$p33.6515371_at_news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "Jim says...
>
>IDE is very CPU intensive.

yes, exceedingly so.

>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....

>It is not reliable for the criticality of a database.
>Jim
>"Thomulus" <t_l_crider_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
>news:9id771$kui$1_at_news.jump.net...
>> Okay, I'm just wondering why one would or would not want to run oracle
>> (datafiles, control files, redologs, oracle_home) over NFS? Trying to get
>> some data on this subject as management thinks a very cheap NAS, IDE
storage
>> device running NFS is our storage and performance solution. All comments
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thom
>>
>>
>
>

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