Re: DAFS? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vincent Janelle
Subject Re: DAFS?
Date
Msg-id 20021030162247.2a441a90.random@goblinstudios.com
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In response to Re: DAFS?  (Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
Responses Re: DAFS?  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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On 30 Oct 2002 08:47:18 -0500
Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:

> Graeme Hinchliffe <graeme@vianetworks.co.uk> writes:
>
> > but dafs isn't nfs.  we were trialing netapp for storage but are
> > going back to local disks as the db ran VERY slowly in comparison.
> > dafs should accelerate things from what i have read.
>
> If it presents a POSIX filesystem API then PG should work OK with it.
>
> -Doug

Doesn't appear to.  A quick scan of the SDK docs appears as though as if
its a direct implementation to access the storage of a device supporting
it by applications, such as database servers over a network.. Kinda like
raw devices.

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