Hmm... What kind of NFS OPS are you seeing? Typically I see (+/- a lot of ops) about 2000 by glancing at sysstat. I assume usenet filers have roughly the same mixure of OPS, but it could depend on configuaration as well I suppose.
Esa Ahola wrote:
Chris Caputo wrote:
Are people actually putting history files on the NetApp?
Yes, for over a year now .
Does it work?
I would say so. What kind of history lookup times are you local-disk fanatics seeing?
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