[Zope] concerns with nfs

[Dieter Maurer]

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