Re: DAFS? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Interesting... I've been using DB2 7.2 on Linux on both local disk and with a
NetApp and have seen a performance increase going to the NetApp for storage.
We have a gigabit network connection between the two, but I'd have thought that
local disk would still be faster, but it wasn't.

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Graeme Hinchliffe wrote:

> 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.
>
> graeme
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > 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:
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > http://www.dafscollaborative.org
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