Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-29 Thread Matthew Nuzum
I just got the BigAdmin newsletter from Sun today... interestingly enough it had a link to an article described as: > Database Performance with NAS: Optimizing Oracle on NFS > This paper discusses the operation of relational databases with network > attached storage (NAS). Management implications

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-29 Thread Carlos Eduardo Smanioto
arlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Rawnsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Andrew Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS > On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 20

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Hammond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> What exactly are you trying to gain, avoid, or do? Gain: seperate database storage from processing. This lets me move clusters from one server to another easily. Just stop the postgres instance on server A and unmount it's filesystem. Then mount it o

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-22 Thread Matt Clark
How about iSCSI? This is exactly what it's for - presenting a bunch of remote SCSI hardware as if it were local. There are several reference implementations on SourceForge from Intel, Cisco & others. I've never tried it myself, but I would if I had the need. And let's face it there are some v

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
There are some less expensive baby-SAN options coming out now - Dell has an rebranded EMC baby SAN (which of course doesn't work with any other EMC system...) that starts at about $6000 or so. Just read the announcement - don't know anything else. While there have been some reports of undewhelmin

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-22 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Rawnsley) transmitted: > On Jun 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote: >> We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass >> storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve havi

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 20:46, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: > On Jun 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass > > storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would i

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Jun 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the cluster on an NFS mounted filesystem. Another technology we

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-21 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass > storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the > cluster on an NFS mounted filesystem. Another technology we're looking > at is the Linux NBD (Network Block

[PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Hammond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the cluster on an NFS mounted filesystem. Another technology we're looking at is the Linux NBD (Network Block Devi