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.
-tcl.