> > of course, you can't really use a netapp filer for a database and
> > expect any sort of reasonable performance.  but they make one hell of
> > a good fileserver.  i love 'em.  can you tell?
>
> Actually,  Oracle has officially endorsed using Netapp Filers with Oracle
> 9i, and both of them seem to claim that this is a direction that they want
> to encourage the user base to go in, because to the way that the snap
> technology can simplify hot backups on large databases.  Who would have
> thunk it?

wow, that's amazing, andy.  is there a new netapp product that's more in
line with emc's offerings, or are they talking about using network
attached storage?

i haven't done the math, but i can't imagine that any nfs version over
any network medium can even begin to approach the performance of raw
disk access over disparate HBAs...

/chris


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