18 Feb
2002
18 Feb
'02
5:10 p.m.
A quick question for all you good people in Toaster List Land.
Has anyone had any experience of running a (busy) MySQL DB off a filer?
We'd quite like all the nice, scrummy data-protection features of a proper filestore but, well, you know, NFS and databases.
Are we mad, or will it work?
We have Filers aplenty so we can mess around, but the databases are all a bit company-critical so we're being cautious.
We know it will *basically* work, but performance issues are the main worry. The DB has to be reasonable quick still, and random block access isn't a NAS strong point.
So, any previous wins or horror stories?
Ta,
J
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