From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Postgres on filer via NFS |
Date: | 2009-03-24 23:57:00 |
Message-ID: | 20090324235700.GM10660@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:36:30PM -0700, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
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> Sorry for the newb question around filers; is there any truth in
> this (old) recommendation re: NFS still?
Absolutely. Nothing about network-attached storage has changed in
general, and the article leaves out the fact that most people's
network pipes far under-perform direct-attached storage in terms of
the number of bits it's possible to push through the pipe in a second.
> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/hw_performance/node11.html
>
> If not, perhaps it should have a caveat or be removed as it turns up in
> searches and threads?
>
> Brian, looking at NetApp FAS250 for ~40GB Postgres storage
DON'T! Just get a flock of small-radius SAS drives and arrange them
as a RAID-10 :)
Cheers,
David.
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