From a3eb18c9c1b4f4f316fd402abf6f85f1e6585363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brianwawok Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:20:37 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update source/administration/production-notes.txt update notes with NFS flags to let MongoDB work on a NFS drive. --- source/administration/production-notes.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/administration/production-notes.txt b/source/administration/production-notes.txt index 132fa249d6e..223c4e2c72b 100644 --- a/source/administration/production-notes.txt +++ b/source/administration/production-notes.txt @@ -144,7 +144,10 @@ Remote Filesystem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some versions of NFS perform very poorly with MongoDB and NFS is not -recommended for use with MongoDB. +recommended for use with MongoDB. However - if you want to use NFS +anyway, you can. If you get an error: "Can't take a write lock while +out of disk space", you need The NFS command line options "bg" and "nolock" +added to your NFS mount in fstab. Many MongoDB deployments work successfully with Amazon's *Elastic Block Store* (EBS) volumes. There are certain intrinsic performance