Fw: Wierd Filesystem question

["Vasyl Shulzhenko" <vasilis@softline.kiev.ua>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.net>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
To: Richard Krenek <rkrenek@ihs.com>
Sent: 30 ЛЮЪ 2000 Ц. 22:35
Subject: Re: Wierd Filesystem question


> Not recommended.  Informix cannot guarantee data integrity on an NFS
> drive since NFS does not support O_SYNC synchronous writes.  The server
> cannot be guaranteed that an updated page has been flushed physically to
> disk.
>
> Art S. Kagel
>
> Richard Krenek wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >     I have a stupid DB question. We have the root dbspace on an NFS
> > mount that resides on a NetApp raid. We then created our main DB space
> > on a local drive. Can anyone see any problems with this? The reason we
> > did it this way was this is a test DB and we had everything set up using
> > the NFS mount then ran out of room and we got a bunch of space added to
> > the machine. In the end what we would like to use some Veretas Back-up
> > software to back up a DB on another machine (that just uses a local
> > filesysytem) to this test machine I was talking about above.
> >
> > Thanks for any info,
> > Richard Krenek