From 72a27bcb65407abb9786e0fc110a9f3eb126693b 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 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 40d544826b..81d274b541 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -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