Re: Stripeset layout challenge

From: Hans de Git (hansdegit_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: 29 Sep 2003 01:55:39 -0700

pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) wrote in message news:<HLxopD.81t@citylink.dinoex.sub.org>...
> There is a question about striping I asked here at an earlier time,
> but no relevant answers were posted. The question is still open to
> me, and I would like to post it again in a simpler and maybe more
> intellegible way.
>
> We have 15 disks on three buses, say each has 32 GB size to a
> total of 480 GB.
>
> The DBA would like to have the following filesystems:
> 160 GB data
> 80 GB index
> 80 GB redologs etc.
> these should be on different disks and should be rather fast; and the
> remaining 160 GB are needed for dumps etc. and could be rather slow,
> as these are not to be used in production mode.

One general remark: do NOT separate index and data onto different
(sets of) disks.
Check out:
http://groups.google.nl/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=guYw8.40277%24Rw2.3101459%40bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dnl%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dkyte%2Bindex%2Braw%2Bseparation%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg%26lr%3D

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