Re: Postgres on filer via NFS

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:36:30PM -0700, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
>
> Sorry for the newb question around filers; is there any truth in
> this (old) recommendation re: NFS still?

Absolutely. Nothing about network-attached storage has changed in
general, and the article leaves out the fact that most people's
network pipes far under-perform direct-attached storage in terms of
the number of bits it's possible to push through the pipe in a second.

> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/hw_performance/node11.html
>
> If not, perhaps it should have a caveat or be removed as it turns up in
> searches and threads?
>
> Brian, looking at NetApp FAS250 for ~40GB Postgres storage

DON'T! Just get a flock of small-radius SAS drives and arrange them
as a RAID-10 :)

Cheers,
David.
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