Why should it be faster than locally attached RAID? It seems to me that this is a trade-off where you live with a little less performance in trade for centralizing storage on already existing NetApp filers thus saving money on having to buy fairly expensive local storage and having to administrate yet another storage area.
The question this raises with me is- I wonder if going to Gigabit between the devices negates the speed issue.
Derek Kelly
----- Original Message ----- From: Shahryar G. Hashemi shahryar@n2h2.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 5:26 PM Subject: Sybase ASE & NetApp Filer [My Experiences].....
Until NetApp can prove to me that their solution is faster than locally attached RAID using "partitions"/"raw I/O" [raw I/O is part of Linux 2.4.X kernel and probably ASE 12.5 for Linux] where we can do asynchronous read/write [filesystem will *always* be synchronous] I would not recommend
it
to anyone.