Hi Gerald, Michael,
Gerald L. Clark wrote:
Never put MySQl data files on an NFS exported share.
Michael Dykman wrote:
> This is a bit of a generalization, but file locks are known to be
> pretty flakey and unreliable under NFS.. any kind of serious load
> begs races conditions which file locks normally sort out. I have had
> similar very bad luck using MySQL across NFS.
Thanks for the input. I've talked with our Hoster, they told me that,
technically, whether the mount points are directly mounted via NFS or whether
they're VMware discs doesn't matter: the product operates solely on NFS,
they're no real physical drives involved ...
thanks,
- Markus
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