Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: Linux NFS vs NetApp | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:36:40 +0100 |
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In article <16868.19707.857446.864762@cse.unsw.edu.au> you wrote: >> NetApp's WAFL only journals metadata in NVRAM ... >> (one of the primary reasons its called WAFL is that the data-write only >> happens once..).
> That may be, though it doesn't fit with my (admittedly limitted) > understanding of WAFL.
Yes, AFAIK the NVRAM is used for the RAID-4, independend of WAFL and as a write-back cache.
However since also the read performance of Linux NFS is bad (at least not very well selftuning) the Hardware is not really the reason for the fast NFS implementation.
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