Re: Update section on NFS

On 4/24/19 4:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-04-23 18:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>>> On 2019-04-23 16:15, Joe Conway wrote:
>>>> I don't think so. Not sure if you have an account at Red Hat, but this
>>>> ticket covers it:
>>>> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/48199
>> 
>>> That discusses the equally-named export options on the NFS server, not
>>> the mount options on the NFS client.
>> 
>> Well, the DBA might also be the NFS server's admin, so I think we ought
>> to explain the correct settings on both ends.
> 
> Right, the slight confusion in this thread indicates that this is worth
> explaining further.


And the confusion is aided by the fact that prior to NFS 3 sync *was*
necessary on the client side.  Yeah I know, ancient, so maybe only old
folks like me get confused ;-), but NFS 2 was probably current when this
was originally written.

See: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/
     "safe asynchronous writes."


> New version attached.

Looks reasonable to me.

Joe
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