Re: DAFS?

No, we feel raw devices would be only a small win with a major pain to implement.

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Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Any feature (or current) support of raw devices. With iSCSI on the move,
> that would be
> a good thing.
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >I know some folks are using NetApp and haven't had any problems.  We
> >don't officially support it because we discourage NFS because the file
> >semantics are not the same as Unix file semantics.
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> >ghinchliffe@vianetworks.co.uk wrote:
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> >>Hiya
> >>    We use NetApp filers for network attached storage, these support
> >>the DAFS protocol.  Is there any support or plan for support of this in
> >>PostgreSQL?  Would be VERY handy if it was supported.
> >>
> >>DAFS info can be obtained at:
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> >>http://www.dafscollaborative.org
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