[GENERAL] Re: Re: PostgreSQL over NFS?

[tc lewis]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, adb wrote:
> I've heard of other people running databases on a Netapp Filer
> I think this is generally ok because the netapp has a special
> write cache in NVram and that's what makes it so fast.
> 

yeah, basically a write returns almost instantaneously (or much closer 
than comparative to your normal machine writing to disk at least) with a
netapp filer.  they're very fast.  and also very expensive.

-tcl.