On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * 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.
>
how's that? storage arrays will require you to use a filesystem that your
operating system supports. or do some storage array companies provide
their own filesystems and drivers for misc systems? same thing i guess.
-tcl.