NFS mounted files are a definetly a "not recommended" (strongly),
AFAIK.
Better throughput results are usually seen on raw devices, depends on
your backup strategy- regular (cooked) filesystems can get close to raw
I/O levels and simplify backups.
The SAN just might eliminate the raw/cooked differences (maybe not in
such a good way), its another layer between the server processes and
disks. No experience here with iSCSI (yet!), but seems that adding IP
traffic would mean even more layers-
Received on Fri Nov 04 2005 - 11:04:06 CST
