Re: Rootdb -Reply

Apropos of which... we lost a disk in Antwerp on a brand new Sparc 20 last year. I was impressed as hell when Informix *just handled it*. All dbspaces were mirrored using Informix mirroring. I'm a fan. rgds -- -- Peter Tashkoff NZ Kiwifruit Project Consultant/DBA Marketing Board. Standard Disclaimers apply This posting may not be used by any commercial organisation to vilify another. >>> Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com> 11/June/1996 04:18am >>> V. Lanny Rosicky wrote: > > Also, I would think that it would be better for having Informix > > mirror the dbspace. (This is debateable since I have never seen > > a disk crash yet on a mirrored dbspace so I am going from intuition.) > > > > -Mikey > > > Actually, there is a good reason to mirror the dspace. Informix recovery > (I'm talking 5.something) > behaves differently if mirroring is set to yes. It clears the logs (an if > you crashed because they filled > up, that's a good thing) > > Lanny Uhmm, I was talking about having the OS Mirror the disk space versus Informix. Definately Mirror rootdbs, and the logs. I was saying that it would be better to let Informix mirror the space rather than the operating system. My only point is that I have yet to see either Informix or HP recover from a disk crash on a mirrored LVM or partition. (Knock on wood.) Based on MTBF, I hope to have at least 2 years to go. (MTBF is >= 5 years, but with the number of disks, I should expect on having a failure before then.) -Mikey. -Mikey