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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2008-03-21 14:23:37 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2008-03-21 14:23:37 +0000
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Document that soft-mounting NFS is not recommended.
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-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.409 2008/02/26 18:01:26 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.410 2008/03/21 14:23:37 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime">
<title>Operating System Environment</title>
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ postgres$ <userinput>initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</userinput>
Specifically, delayed (asynchronous) writes to the <acronym>NFS</>
server can cause reliability problems; if possible, mount
<acronym>NFS</> file systems synchronously (without caching) to avoid
- this. (Storage Area Networks (<acronym>SAN</>) use a low-level
+ this. Also, soft-mounting <acronym>NFS</> is not recommended.
+ (Storage Area Networks (<acronym>SAN</>) use a low-level
communication protocol rather than <acronym>NFS</>.)
</para>