[GENERAL] PostgreSQL and a clustered file system

2012-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Hello, Is anyone running PostgreSQL on a clustered file system on Linux? By clustered I actually mean shared, such that the same storage is mounted by different servers at the same time (of course, only one instance of PostgreSQL on only one server can be running on such a setup, and there are a

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and a clustered file system

2012-11-12 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Hello Ivan, this sounds so mainframe-ish, i recall, in IBM MVS (circa 1990+) we used to attach two systems to the same DASDie storage, and then employ disk serialization provided by the OS to achieve some integrity to the data. (do not get me wrong i had adequate Unix/SUNOS/Ultrix experience

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and a clustered file system

2012-11-12 Thread Gunnar Nick Bluth
Am 12.11.2012 11:03, schrieb Ivan Voras: Hello, Is anyone running PostgreSQL on a clustered file system on Linux? By clustered I actually mean shared, such that the same storage is mounted by different servers at the same time (of course, only one instance of PostgreSQL on only one server can

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and a clustered file system

2012-11-12 Thread David Boreham
On 11/12/2012 1:52 PM, Gunnar Nick Bluth wrote: Am 12.11.2012 11:03, schrieb Ivan Voras: Is anyone running PostgreSQL on a clustered file system on Linux? By clustered I actually mean shared, such that the same storage is mounted by different servers at the same time (of course, only one

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and a clustered file system

2012-11-12 Thread Stephen Frost
Ivan, * Ivan Voras (ivo...@freebsd.org) wrote: Is anyone running PostgreSQL on a clustered file system on Linux? By clustered I actually mean shared, such that the same storage is mounted by different servers at the same time (of course, only one instance of PostgreSQL on only one server can