Re: tuning NFS for large backups

NetComrade wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:16:53 +0100, Michael Heiming
> <michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de> wrote:
>
> >In alt.os.linux J.O. Aho <user_at_example.net>:
> >> Michael Heiming wrote:
> >
> >>> The first question is if the storage box can deliver more speed
> >>> in the recent setup at all? There might be already the problem
> >>> where some Linux kernel tuning won't help at all.
> >
> >> My experience of default kernel settings are that they are for a quite
> >> mediocre defaults that works for most home users, of course RHEL should be
> >> tuned for better settings.
> >
> >Not really, though it isn't clear from the OP what kind of
> >storage this is (SAN/NAS) and it wouldn't do much if the former.
>
> AX100 is a SAN (fibre) attached to the NFS server via a fibre switch.
> .......
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I would recommend having Oracle confirm they support this setup. Oracle doesn't support NFS outside the context of a SAN/NAS, and as your SAN is not attached *directly* to the database server, this is probably a form of NFS they won't support.

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Sybrand Bakker
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