On Jan 15, 11:14, James R Grinter wrote:

Subject: Re: Shortcomings of current NetApps? On Thu 15 Jan, 1998, Alexei Rodriguez alexei@cimedia.com wrote:

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I understand the benefits. I just don't care for having 5 4GB slices which you have to manage (ala auspex).

I thought the idea of multiple RAID sets is that you layer one filesystem atop them all (if you want to. Of course, others want to have multiple filesystems.)

My thought was that for once we'd have separate fs's in one NetApp box. Which would allow us to have separate snapshot schedules in the same box. Which would be nice and useful.

(Which is something you can, and people do, do with multiple RAID controllers and Unix systems, etc)

-- jrg. -- End of excerpt from James R Grinter