Can I use an NFS-mounted filesystem?
No. Rather than mounting the filesystem that holds your database via NFS, • The remote host must be running sqlexecd, and • You must access the remote database using the network Non-Linux versions of SE enforce this in the binaries, but this may not be the case with the Linux product. As Jonathan Leffler advises, “expect problems if you try to cheat — data corruption problems.” Whether this is enforced by the binaries or not, mounting your database on an NFS mount is a bad idea for (at least) two reasons: • Access will be slow, because NFS is slow. • If you lose your NFS mounts, you’re screwed, and who knows what happens to your databases files.
