[postgis-users] SQLite and postGIS

[Ron M]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Databases basically do not work over NFS mounted filesystems because of 
> locking and caching issues.

Surely that's an exaggeration.

http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/08/oracle-optimize.html
"Oracle uses NFS to run its applications on tens of thousands
  of Linux servers accessing many petabytes of NetApp storage.
  In 2005 they had 12,000 Linux servers and 3 petabytes of NetApp
  storage. Today’s numbers aren’t public, but they are much larger."

But yeah, it is tricky:
  http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2002-April/001278.html