Tuesday, September 1, 2009

WAFL (Write anywhere filesystem in Netapp)

What File system Supports in Netapp (WAFL)

WAFL Filesystem Supports large,High performance RAID array,quick restarts without consistency checks in the event of Crash power failure and growing file system quickly.

WAFL Most Feature is snapshot or read only copy file system.
snapshots allow users to recover files that they have accidentally deleted; they provide an online backup that can be accessed quickly

NetApp's Data ONTAP Release 7G operating system supports a read-write snapshot called FlexClone

WAFL is its support for both a Unix-style file and directory model for NFS clients and a Microsoft Windows-style file and directory model for CIFS clients

Max file size 16TB (limited by containing aggregate size)

Max volume size 16TB (limited by containing aggregate size

File system permissions UNIX permissions and ACLs

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