Re: Using network appliance Filer with modperl

[Leslie Mikesell]

According to Elizabeth Mattijsen:

> We have been using such a setup for over 2 years now.  The only real issue
> we've found is not so much with mod_perl itself, but with MySQL.  If you
> put your databases on the NetApp, either have a seperate central database
> server, or make damn sure you do not use the same database from two
> different front-end servers.  We've seen database corruption that way
> (using Linux front-end servers with NFS 2).

It is probably reasonable for MySQL to assume that only one server
is accessing the files at once since it has its own remote client
access protocol.  Do you happen to know if there is a performance
difference for MySQL between local drives and a NetApp?

  Les Mikesell
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