Document that soft-mounting NFS is not recommended.
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:23:37 +0000 (14:23 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:23:37 +0000 (14:23 +0000)
doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

index 40d544826b032cb31a1533b50ed704c1f666949b..81d274b54153d237ab6c22bde16efb7ffa49475f 100644 (file)
@@ -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>