Sorry, I should have qualified that "effective" better. I was specifically speaking in terms of Solaris and price. For companies without a SAN (especially using Linux), something like a NetApp Filer using UFS is the way to go, I realize. If you're running Solaris, the cost of QFS becomes a major factor. If you have a SAN, then getting a NetApp Filer seems silly. And so on.
Oracle has suggested RAW disk for some time, I think. (Some?) DBA's don't seem to like it largely because they cannot see the files, and so on. ASM still has some of these limitations, but it's getting better, and DBA's are starting to get used to the new paradigms. If I remember a conversation last year correctly, OEM will become the window into some of these ideas. Once ASM has industry acceptance on a large scale, then yes, making file systems perform well especially for Oracle databases will be chasing the wind. But, that may be a while down the road. I don't know, my crystal ball got cracked during the last comet transition. ;-) Rainer This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
