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Hello,
We host our PostgreSQL database on FreeBSD. Until now, we have just
built the beefiest DB server we can spec, and then dump the data every
thirty minutes to a backup DB server, so if the primary DB ser
In the last episode (Sep 09), Danny Howard said:
> As I understand it, I can have an FC loop with one or more drives,
> connected to two servers, and either server can talk to one or the
> other drives exclusively. My QUESTION is: how is the arbitration
> done in FreeBSD? You run camcontrol on ei
hi danny
you are asking too many questions :-), but w/r to netapp:
same computer, 1gbE, NFS is about 50% slower than FC.
btw, iSCSI (still beta) is only slightly faster than NFS
(note NFS is UDP, iSCSI is TCP).
as to reliability, the netapp is worth avery penny (actualy K$ :-), had only
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Danny Braniss wrote:
> hi danny
> you are asking too many questions :-), but w/r to netapp:
> same computer, 1gbE, NFS is about 50% slower than FC.
> btw, iSCSI (still beta) is only slightly faster than NFS
> (note NFS is UDP, iSCSI is TCP).
Of course NFS can be TCP as well. And must be TCP
On Friday 09 September 2005 01:59 pm, Danny Howard wrote:
>
> >From my research, I am thus far most impressed with the SANbloc 2Gb,
>
> which holds fourteen FC drives in a 3U rackmount. It can be had with
> redundant RAID controllers, or as a JBOD. There are similar products
> from other vendors
