Re: NFS Mount of Remote Disk Farm

> Blacker, Herb wrote: > > We have two RS/6000's, an E/30 and an R/50. > We've bought and installed a number of drives on the R/50, > and would like to access them (as Informix raw devices) from the R/30. > > Is it true that NFS must have a cooked file system to mount the > drives, > or is there a way around this so that the drives can be seen by > Informix? Yip, but you might find that your disk farm gives better performance than your local raw partition - we certainly do on our baby disk farm (Network appliances). > TIA, > Herb Blacker > Director, Database Services > US Oncology, Inc. > herb.blacker@usoncology.com -- /* ----------------------------------------------------- * * Willem Roos wroos@shoprite.co.za * * roosj@mweb.co.za * * 0(+27)21 980 4941 * * 0(+27)21 919 0198 * * ----------------------------------------------------- */