Re: [Zope] concerns with nfs

David Bear wrote at 2008-9-30 09:32 -0700:

Since I have started using vmware ESX as a hosting platform for zope, I've been mostly happy. However, I am wondering if I should have any concerns with storing the zodb on nfs. All our file systems on ESX are nfs mounted and lately we have had some interesting issues with the LAN that nfs runs on. So I'm am wondering if I should be concerned about storing the zodb on nfs mounted filesystems.

We are using (read only mounted) "FileStorage"s on NFS systems heavily. Of course, we expect that they are considerably slower that those on a native file system. Read/write mounted storages may get locking problems (as locking over NFS requires some infrastructure). -- Dieter