Re: Informix vs. AIX Mirroring
Posted in 1996
Kevin Brand — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
> I disagree. Filesystem damage can 'take down' a primary drive. Since > it is generally a raw device - hte Unix mirroring will never notice a need > to switch over where the Informix mirroring will. Where we have used > Informix mirroring we have been very happy with it. Where we have not > we have had this sort of problem. First, You already have huge problems if you're using the filesystem for Informix Online Dbspaces. Second, we're talking about AIX, which has a very clean Logical Volume Management system that does, in fact, recognize a failure and 'switch' as you say to the good hardware. Kevin Brand