On 1/18/08 3:29 PM, "Jason Venner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We were thinking of doing this with some machines that do not have
> decent disks but have plenty of netbandwidth.
We were doing it for a while, in particular for our data loaders*....
but that was months and months ago.
I don't remember any specific complaints about speed, but you obviously
lose some of the data locality capabilities. Depending upon your workload
and how your network is configured (bandwidth -and- latency), you might be
ok.
* - this is to force the data to get spread out amongst the data nodes vs.
filling up the node that the data is being loaded from.
