I just got the BigAdmin newsletter from Sun today... interestingly enough it
had a link to an article described as:
> Database Performance with NAS: Optimizing Oracle on NFS
> This paper discusses the operation of relational databases with network
> attached storage (NAS). Management implications
arlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Andrew Rawnsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Andrew Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS
> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 20
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|> What exactly are you trying to gain, avoid, or do?
Gain: seperate database storage from processing. This lets me move
clusters from one server to another easily. Just stop the postgres
instance on server A and unmount it's filesystem. Then mount it o
How about iSCSI? This is exactly what it's for - presenting a bunch of
remote SCSI hardware as if it were local.
There are several reference implementations on SourceForge from Intel, Cisco
& others.
I've never tried it myself, but I would if I had the need. And let's face
it there are some v
There are some less expensive baby-SAN options coming out now - Dell
has an
rebranded EMC baby SAN (which of course doesn't work with any other EMC
system...) that starts at about $6000 or so. Just read the announcement
- don't know
anything else. While there have been some reports of undewhelmin
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew
Rawnsley) transmitted:
> On Jun 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:
>> We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass
>> storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve havi
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 20:46, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:
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> > We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass
> > storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would i
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We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass
storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the
cluster on an NFS mounted filesystem. Another technology we
Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass
> storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the
> cluster on an NFS mounted filesystem. Another technology we're looking
> at is the Linux NBD (Network Block
