Re: Re: Re: PostgreSQL over NFS?

* tc lewis <tcl@bunzy.net> [010209 16:47] wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, adb wrote:
> > I've heard of other people running databases on a Netapp Filer
> > I think this is generally ok because the netapp has a special
> > write cache in NVram and that's what makes it so fast.
> >
>
> yeah, basically a write returns almost instantaneously (or much closer
> than comparative to your normal machine writing to disk at least) with a
> netapp filer.  they're very fast.  and also very expensive.

You can also get a raid with battery backup, this would achieve
pretty much the same thing.

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