On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joerg Bruehe <joerg.bru...@sun.com> wrote:

> |> There may be some merit to this in a specialized setup (SAN systems -
> |> I'm not convinced of them, but don't claim expert knowledge about them),
>

As a slight aside, I'd like to offer you two major advantages of SAN
systems:

1. More spindles, thus lower latency
2. Thin provisioning - akin to sparse files, you only lock the space you
really use, not what you reserve.

Both are of course at their most useful in large environments.

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