[postgis-users] SQLite and postGIS

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ron M wrote:
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> Databases basically do not work over NFS mounted filesystems because 
>> of locking and caching issues.
> 
> Surely that's an exaggeration.

OK, it is a slight exaggeration, but unless you really know what you are 
doing you just should stay away from it. I think the real issue is taht 
while NFS works great for common file sharing and stuff and you really 
don't have to know much about it that is just not the case if you are 
trying to setup a database over it.

I think it is a case of "Buyer be ware!" or you might loose your data.

-Steve

> 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
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