[TriLUG] Re: NFS/Netapp Filer with Linux servers

[Lance A. Brown]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 22:07, John Reuning wrote:

> Finally, one question: is the shopping cart a write-heavy application? 
> Netapps are raid-3-ish storage, right?  Have the netapp folks given
> recommendations on raid volume size?

NetApps are RAID-4 devices with battery-backed fast NVRAM write caches
and seriously optimized file system and caching algorithms to make it go
fast fast fast.

--[Lance]

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