Although its not exactly associated with this as such there is a growing understanding that SMB/CIFS shares have a nasty habit of reporting "on storage" before the data really is safe. That is a bit of a problem for many backup systems, unless you do a verify afterwards and pick up the pieces. Backups can involve massive files with odd write and read patterns and databases generally involve quite large files with odd read and write patterns compared to say document storage.
Perhaps we need database and backup oriented filesystems and not funny looking files on top of generic filesystems.
Perhaps we need database and backup oriented filesystems and not funny looking files on top of generic filesystems.