RE: 9.40 buggy!

Posted in 2003

Colin Bull — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:40:15 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Richard Kofler ( and others) wrote > > #2 seems to contradict #3 > > Nowadays large disk environment means storage consolidation, that > implies SAN, those deliver RAID5 LUNs upto a size of (<huuuge>) via > concatenation smallish Metadrives or LVOL or .... else you get out > many tiny pieces of your SAN box upto the limit of LUNs (which > is somewhat smallish, but high enough to make it possible to > sell a LVM to you) > > Therefore you need a LVM anyway to make something useful out > of those large piles of crap > > You lose each and every piece of control about what is where, > thanks to striping where you cannot change the stripe size or > some similar silly 'feature' of you SAN box, depending on the > vendor. > > Surely it depends on your OS. Ours SAN allows raid 10, mapping logical volumes to stripesets or mirrorsets. Tru64 (RIP) :-( Come and get it soon. While stocks last !! Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list