Certainly. I had forgotten about the attachment policy. Please find James'
paper on
http://miracleas.dk/DBF/Morle/Sane_SAN_WP.pdf
.
I've CC'ed James, who's an old friend of ours. He's the guy who wrote Scaling
Oracle8i which is not a half bad book.
Mogens
C.S.Venkata Subramanian wrote:
May I please have a copy of this paper?
Thanks
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 00:38
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi,
WAFL is Write Anywhere File Layout...
Its the file lay out used by snapshot supported storege Devices(NetApp
Storege Etc), This
Subject: RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID
Yea, they were talking about clustering all right.
sure
uh huh
right
Whatever!
-Original Message-
From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:26 PM
To: Multiple recipients
May I please have a copy of this paper?
Thanks
-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 00:38
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi,
WAFL is Write Anywhere File Layout...
Its the file lay out used by snapshot supported storege Devices(NetApp
Storege Etc), This is
Bill:
I believe that WAFL and SAME are variations on the technology implemented
for RAID. WAFL and SAME are new technologies adopted by smaller disk
manufacturers as a way to complete against the RAID implementers like EMC,
Network Appliance, etc.
In my humble opinion, I would not bet the
WAFL and SAME are not the same. WAFL stands for Write Anywhere File Layout.
It is a Network Appliance proprietary system and they've trade marked
WAFL. Coincidentally it's a RAID 4 NFS implementation. See:
http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3002.html#I3
Beware the marketing droids...
Bill;
We are using the Netapp filler with the WAFL file system and, I must tell
you, I like it.
It has some very good advantages. The largest, in my mind, is the fact that
our downtime to do backups is only about 5 minutes a day. We take the DBs
down , make a snapshot, then bring them back
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID
WAFL and SAME are not the same. WAFL stands for Write Anywhere File Layout.
It is a Network Appliance proprietary system and they've trade marked
WAFL. Coincidentally it's a RAID 4 NFS implementation. See:
http
May I make a suggestion? It would be helpful if posters would expand
acronyms the first time they use them. I, at least, have no idea what
WAFL is. Thanks.
--- Bill Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for any pointers to white papers, etc.
that discuss the
Good idea..
All I know about WAFL is the House where breakfast is served ;)
- Kirti
-Original Message-
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:57 PM
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May I make a suggestion? It would be helpful if posters would expand
acronyms the first time they
You make WAFL's with a WAFL iron.
Ken
-Original Message-
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:57 PM
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Subject:Re: SAME, WAFL and RAID
May I make a suggestion? It would be helpful if posters would expand
acronyms the first time
Absolutely good idea.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:23 PM
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Good idea..
All I know about WAFL is the House where breakfast is served ;)
- Kirti
-Original Message-
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:57 PM
To:
Title: RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID
good question... RAID and WALF -- see below. SAME... no idea...
RAID - (from http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html )
What does RAID stand for ?
In 1987, Patterson, Gibson and Katz at the University of California Berkeley, published a paper
Title: RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID
Great
! Thanks for the info..
-
Kirti
-Original Message-From: Nick Wagner
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:49
PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:
SAME, WAFL and RAID
good question... RAID and WALF -- see
Hi,
WAFL is Write Anywhere File Layout...
Its the file lay out used by snapshot supported storege Devices(NetApp
Storege Etc), This is completely different from a RAID. A RAID is a system
which may or maynot be h/w controlled. But WAFL is the Low level file layout
of the Storege system. In
Title: RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID
SAME =
'stripe and mirror everthing'
BHT =
'butylated hydroxytoluene'
-Original Message-From: Deshpande, Kirti
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002
5:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:
RE: SAME, WAFL
Title: RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID
Yea,
they were talking about clustering all right.
sure
uh
huh
right
Whatever!
-Original Message-From: Deshpande, Kirti
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002
6:26 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:
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