FS spanning across multiple disks

From: Kumar, Praveen (cahoot) (Praveen.Kumar_at_CAHOOT.COM)
Date: 07/26/04

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    Date:         Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:06:03 +0100
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Hi,

            As a part of our capacity planning I am planning to increase a
    filesystem which is on a disk say hdisk1.The mirror copy of this exists on
    hdisk2. While adding space to the file system, I am picking some space from
    another 2 disks say hdisk3 and hdisk5 which have the mirror copies on hdisk4
    and hdisk6 respectively. (The disk containing this file system does not have
    free space any more)

    I want to know whether is there any disadvantage if my file system spans
    across 3 disks (Since mirrored it is 6 disks). This file system will have
    only two file that are very large.

    The file system does not have much IO, it has activity once a day that's
    all.

    TIA
    Praveen.K

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