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Re: RAC in NAS

From: "Mark Brinsmead" <pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx>
To: mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:18:33 -0600

And I'll be happy to read it.  ;-)

I wonder how many PHBs will, though...

Although, I really ought to point out that my original point (at the
beginning of this
rather long discussion) was *meant* to be that a relatively small amount of
common sense (and maybe a whole lot of homework) can avoid the most
*amazing* "situations".

As others have recently noted in this thread, many of these "situations"
come from such fundamental errors as measuring storage (only) in GBytes,
rather than in MB/s or RIOPs.  Other personal favorites are deploying a
massive new system to production, and *then* starting to think about
*how* to back it up, or meticulously benchmarking the "transactional"
performance of an OLTP solution but completely neglecting to benchmark
the backups or batch processing.

Still, I *have* noted the rather prominent lack of decent reading material
on
matters relating to storage architecture.  I do recall purchasing *one*
book on the subject (mostly out of despair for ever finding a *good* one)
and *still* being deeply disappointed.  I won't bother to mention the author
or the publisher...

Yes, if Jared writes it, I will buy it.  I'll probably even *read* it.  ;-)

Maybe we could even get him started.  Perhaps we should start outlining
the TOC?   ;-)

On 8/1/06, Mogens Nørrgaard <mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


No, it's back to US again. It is no use trying the finger-pointing,
since all guys everywhere pretty much are nice guys. As soon as you get
to know them it's very hard to be hard and agressive towards what
they're trying to do, isn't it?

So, Jared, stop all this nonsense and start planning the storage book.
It's sorely needed, and I suspect that's what you wanted to point out to
us :-).

I'll be happy to write the introduction :-))).

Mogens


Jared Still wrote:

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--
Cheers,
-- Mark Brinsmead
  Staff DBA,
  The Pythian Group
  http://www.pythian.com/blogs

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