From 480d4f7ea50b2e4d65e1f7eb7e6eb11f7aaaad6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:23:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that soft-mounting NFS is not recommended. --- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 0e538a09443..7d89be32fb1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Operating System Environment @@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data Specifically, delayed (asynchronous) writes to the NFS server can cause reliability problems; if possible, mount NFS file systems synchronously (without caching) to avoid - this. (Storage Area Networks (SAN) use a low-level + this. Also, soft-mounting NFS is not recommended. + (Storage Area Networks (SAN) use a low-level communication protocol rather than NFS.) -- 2.39.5