Re: INFORMIX ONLINE RAID 5 and SCO UNIX

> > Paris, France 13 january > > Does any one have ever see Informix On Line > runing on a SCO UNIX machine with RAID 5 ? > > I am told that there should not have any problems ! > > Louis Bonnet-Madin > stn@pobox.oleane.com > In my experience RAID should be treated very much as guilty until proved innocent. If you've got lots of separate disks, use them - logical logs on one, physical logs, busy tables on another and so on. This way OnLine can do sorted writes to all of them. If you don't take advantage of the benefit of having lots of disks, you're really losing out. Scatter everything across all the disks and you can really hammer performance. The only thing I can say in its defence is that RAID 5 is supposed to be less harmful than RAID 3. akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) -------------------------------------