Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and SAN/NAS technologies

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > We're looking at investing in a new storage system in order to run > PostgreSQL and the advice we are getting is to move away from our > current SAN solution to a NAS solution. Can anyone offer any > advice/experience on using NAS devices to run a PostgreSQL database? The

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and SAN/NAS technologies

2005-11-28 Thread Franz . Rasper
Hi, i have seen both mysql and postgresql running on Network Aplliance Filer via NFS (UNIX/BSD Server). NFS is slower than SAN or local Disks, with NFS it is easier to move Data from one server to another server. NFS tuning is tricky, "Netapp NFS" with snaphosts are great. But if you have a lot of