Re: SAN and full_page_writes

Nikolas Everett wrote:
> I seem to have answered my own question.  I'm sending the answer to the list
> in case someone else has the same question one day.
>
> According to the NetApp documentation, it does protect me from partial page
> writes.  Thus, full_page_writes = off.

Just for clarification, the NetApp must guarantee that the entire 8k
gets to disk, not just one of the 512-byte blocks that disks use
internally.

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