Re: INFORMIXDIR location

[Post re-formatted to please my news client...] Bill Weaver <billw@fscorp.com> wrote: > In the past, our INFORMIXDIR was always set to /usr/informix meaning > that it was on the root drive and partition (our version of unix combines > root and /usr in the same partition, some don't). Does it make better > sense to put the stuff in INFORMIXDIR on another mounted filesystem > so that it won't be "contending" for the drive with the OS? Or is there > really no significant difference? Just curious. I avoid putting anything on the root filesystem if at all possible, mostly for recovery purposes. In my production environment, in fact, I go so far as to put the root filesystem on one controller and point other filesystems to other controllers, so that if a controller goes south, I don't have to rebuild multiple filesystems. There is a limit, of course, to how far you can take this, but I have /home, /var, /usr and / on separate disks and controllers. It gets expensive in terms of hardware, but it has also saved me hours of recovery time. Kurt