NFS Mount of Remote Disk Farm

Posted in 1999

Blacker, Herb — Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:14:16 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_001_01BEEB48.94BC7E20 Content-Type: text/plain 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? TIA, Herb Blacker Director, Database Services US Oncology, Inc. herb.blacker@usoncology.com ------ =_NextPart_001_01BEEB48.94BC7E20 Content-Type: text/html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.1960.3"> <TITLE>NFS Mount of Remote Disk Farm</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> 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? TIA, Herb Blacker Director, Database Services US Oncology, Inc. herb.blacker@usoncology.com </BODY> </HTML> ------ =_NextPart_001_01BEEB48.94BC7E20--