From: Johan De Meersman Date: June 10 2010 8:49am Subject: Re: 2 servers 1 common data base List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/221878 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e646a24034caeb0488a91b2e --0016e646a24034caeb0488a91b2e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Joerg Bruehe wrote: > |> There may be some merit to this in a specialized setup (SAN systems - > |> I'm not convinced of them, but don't claim expert knowledge about them), > As a slight aside, I'd like to offer you two major advantages of SAN systems: 1. More spindles, thus lower latency 2. Thin provisioning - akin to sparse files, you only lock the space you really use, not what you reserve. Both are of course at their most useful in large environments. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel --0016e646a24034caeb0488a91b2e--