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To: DownSouth who wrote (37787)	1/11/2001 1:22:34 PM
From: Tom Chwojko-Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Not knowing much about storage technology, what about flash memory? Tom CF

To: DownSouth who wrote (37787)	1/11/2001 4:32:33 PM
From: Knight	Respond to of 54805

The technology that we are looking for to disrupt WAFL will either be a new file layout supported by software that is compliant with NFS and CIFS file protocol As I recall one or more of the technologies I was referring to offloaded most filesystem processing from the application server by keeping the filesystem metadata on separate "storage server." The filesystem appeared on the application server like an NFS or CIFS mount; however, under the covers they intercepted the requests routing them to the storage server which looked up the appropriate blocks and transferred them directly back to the application server via a large block-transfer. I also seem to recall that I was never able to get a satisfactory answer about how anyone handled cache coherency. I suspect that's a major area where NTAP has an advantage. In order for Oracle et. al. to have agreed to support remote attached NTAP filers they must have solved this. I think I may have saved some web links on my home PC. I'll check... P.S. My apologies if this discussion is getting too technical to some folks. I'm just trying to get to the bottom of things to help convince myself that NTAP has a real technology lock here via WAFL.