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From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl>
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Danny Braniss wrote:
> hi danny
> 	you are asking too many questions :-), but w/r to netapp:
> same computer, 1gbE, NFS is about 50% slower than FC.
> btw, iSCSI (still beta) is only slightly faster than NFS
> (note NFS is UDP, iSCSI is TCP).

Of course NFS can be TCP as well. And must be TCP for NFSv4.

> as to reliability, the netapp is worth avery penny (actualy K$ :-), had o=
nly=20
> one major breakdown in over 10 years.

Same experiences here, with lots of NetApps. I would however not be
happy running PostgreSQL over NFS. With FC/iSCSI, no problem.

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Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
dean@stack.nl  |  dean@ipnet6.org  |  http://www.ipnet6.org/
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