| From: | Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> |
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| To: | tc lewis <tcl(at)bunzy(dot)net> |
| Cc: | adb <adb(at)Beast(dot)COM>, Shaw Terwilliger <sterwill(at)sourcegear(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Re: PostgreSQL over NFS? |
| Date: | 2001-02-10 00:57:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20010209165716.A3274@fw.wintelcom.net |
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* tc lewis <tcl(at)bunzy(dot)net> [010209 16:47] wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, adb wrote:
> > I've heard of other people running databases on a Netapp Filer
> > I think this is generally ok because the netapp has a special
> > write cache in NVram and that's what makes it so fast.
> >
>
> yeah, basically a write returns almost instantaneously (or much closer
> than comparative to your normal machine writing to disk at least) with a
> netapp filer. they're very fast. and also very expensive.
You can also get a raid with battery backup, this would achieve
pretty much the same thing.
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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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