On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:03:22AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Joel Heenan wrote:
>> Network
>> filesystems are not normally used for database files.
>>
>
> I work for an ASP that has all of its Oracle databases (hundreds of them)
> mounted via NFS. It works just fine. The database servers are running Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and the NFS mount points are NetApp filers.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
I believe NetApps are specifically supported by Oracle but not NFS
generally. (which you touch on later in this message)
Even so this is just a convenience, it does nothing to 'share' the database
unless you mean clustering.
Access to the database is always by an Oracle protocol e.g. bequeath, sqlnet
or something like jdbc, never by direct access to the files.
Matt
PS getting seriously off-topic here, I suggest following up to -chat
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