[linux-cifs-client] A question about SQL-over-CIFS

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:26:37PM +0530, Peter Chacko wrote:
> Could any one share their experience with SQL server over a CIFS share
> ?  Assuming that i am not hosting transactional work load on the
> database, does any one think that SQL-CIFS stack is not a good
> solution ?  Here i use Database as a file level storage appliance
> where i store write-once, read-mostly IO pattern is more common.  DBAs
> are happy with MySQL or ORACLE over NFS. Does that hold true for
> database-over-CIFS as well ?

Should work (at least to a Samba server :-). Try it and see
(with a good backup of your db of course :-). If it doesn't
work it's a bug and we'll fix it.

Jeremy.