Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?

From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?
Date: 2003-08-26 18:18:52
Message-ID: Pine.GSU.4.44.0308261117020.5080-100000@eskimo.com
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> Online backups with archived transaction logs are the next big killer feature
> (the last one remaining?) for 24x7 operation I think.

I believe this is at least theoretically possible using Linux device layer
tricks. Using network block devices, you can have a network RAID1, with
the transaction logs living over NFS. Never tried this, but it seems all
the tools are there.

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