RE: "Wac"-ing the WAFL?

From: Mohler, Jeff (jeff.mohler@netapp.com)
Date: Thu Dec 30 1999 - 13:05:02 EST


Yes, but in the spirit of keeping the post simple for our new user, I didnt
bring in complexities of how a F720 and lower work, or clustering.
 
So yes, my post is somewhat inaccurate outside the scope of the reply itself.

:-----Original Message-----
:From: tkaczma@gryf.net [mailto:tkaczma@gryf.net]
:Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 8:51 AM
:Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
:Subject: RE: "Wac"-ing the WAFL?
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:On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Mohler, Jeff wrote:
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:> When a series of writes comes into the box, it is buffered
:*im making this
:> simple*, and it flushed out to disk (on a 760) ever 10
:seconds, of when 16Mb of
:> data is in the buffer (NVRAM).
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:This is inaccurate, I believe in clustered machines with 32MB
:NVRAM it is
:8MB. I think the general rule is half of NVRAM dedicated to the
:particular filer.
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:Tom
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