Kevin Closson is a big proponent of using Oracle with NFS. He used to post here frequently, but I think Oracle's been keeping him pretty busy these days. See his blog: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/kevin-closson-index/cfs-nfs-asm-topics/ On 3/11/08, Greg Norris <spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've got a 9iR2 database on an AIX server which is currently > experiencing some SAN problems. The SysAdmins have indicated that we > need to move off the SAN for several days while they address the > issue, and has suggested that we relocate the database to NFS in the > interim. My preference would be a backup/restore to another server, > but we unfortunately don't have any other AIX systems available, and > the application has some constraints which prevent us from migrating > to another OS at present. > > I'm somewhat reluctant to use NFS for Oracle datafiles, largely > because we simply haven't done this for any other environments, but > I'm not sure that I have many options in this specific case. Is > anyone doing this? If so, is there anything in particular that I > should be sure to check/address? > > -- Jason Heinrich