NetApp Filers use WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout. WAFL is similar to
other Unix filesystems like FFS in that it's a block-based file system
using inodes to describe files. It uses 4K blocks with no
fragmentation. Each WAFL inode has 16 block pointers that point to data
blocks. Unlike FFS,
Rich - We use Net Appliance as additional storage on our test system (Compaq
Tru64 / Oracle 8.1.6). I believe the Net Appliance has a dedicated 100-meg
Ethernet connection. It seems to work pretty good, but my experience is that
you can overload the I/O channel. Once, I set a large database up to
