On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Tony Green wrote:
> I've done some more digging and spoken with a few people. I'm surprised
> to see that Oracle themselves support storing data on an NFS system ?!?!
>
> They do specify that you use netapp filers, but other than that it's
> just NFS.
>
> I'm not too worried about the overall bandwidth at this time, I've got a
> lot of 'proof of concept' testing to see if it'll work in practice, but
> it looks good so far.
It can be done and it does work. You really do need something like
gigabit ethernet or better. You also have to watch your UID mappings.
As well, you should make sure your host database is allocated lots
of disk spindles and have your control and redo files on separate
disks if at all possible.
rachel
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