From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Anyone using a SAN?
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:08:26 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802132318580.11768@westnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802140323.m1E3N4U26014@momjian.us>
References: <200802140323.m1E3N4U26014@momjian.us>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Should this be summarized somewhere in our docs; just a few lines with
> the tradeoffs, direct storage = cheaper, faster, SAN = more configurable?
I think it's kind of stetching the PostgreSQL documentation to be covering
that. It's hard to generalize here without giving a fair amount of
background and caveats--that last message was about as compact a
commentary on this as I could come up with. One of the things I was
hoping to push into the community documentation one day was a larger look
at disk layout than covers this, RAID issues, and related topics (this got
started at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.64 but stalled).
What's nice about putting it into a web-only format is that it's easy to
hyperlink heavily into the archives to recommend specific discussion
threads of the issues for reference, which isn't practical in the manual.
--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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