Author: Chris Dawe Date: To: 'Hampshire LUG' Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT]Datebase questions
On 2010-03-24 20:55, Daniel Pope wrote: > On 24/03/10 19:40, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Database heads with storage mounted remotely off a SAN or NAS is an
> > extremely common setup in the real world.
>
> I find that quite surprising. My understanding was that the syscalls (locking > and mmap) are not supported well enough enough to offer consistency and
> durability guarantees.
> Dan
Many database installations use SAN-based storage, but they do NOT use NFS
since it have reliability problems (network glitches, etc).