Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass > storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the > cluster on an NFS mounted filesystem. Another technology we're looking > at is the Linux NBD (Network Block Device).
There are a lot of horror stories concerning running databases (not only Postgres) over NFS. I wouldn't recommend it. Dunno anything about NBD though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster