Re: RAID 5 - IDS 7.30 - NT 4.0
Replies to a question about running IDS 7.30 on NT 4.0 with RAID 5. Obnoxio The Clown pointed out that Art Kagel and he regularly criticise RAID 5, and that on NT dbspaces are just OS files. Greg Starnes, Thomas Parsli and Axel Sander then joked about NT servers and RAID 5 and linked a cartoon. No technical conclusion.
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Which planet are you from, then? :-) You clearly haven't been paying attention to Art's rants (and mine!) about the evils of RAID 5... From: Thiel Franky <franky.thiel@INFOHOS.BE> > >We have to reinstall a Nt server into RAID 5 situation. >We use IDS 7.30 TC 5 on NT 4.0. > >In the past we had 1 NT server with 4 disks. > >Disk 1 (NT + software) >Disk 2 tables disk 2 + indexes tables disk 4 >Disk 3 tables disk 3 + indexes tables disk 2 >Disk 4 tables disk 4 + indexes tables disk 3 > >Now the server must be reinstalled : > >Disk 1 (NT + software) >DISK 2 = disk 2 + disk 3 + disk 4 (RAID 5) > >In the past I had a sutation where all the tables of one disk were located >in one dbspace and on that disk. > >With my RAID 5, I cannot tell Informix anymore that my data is in >tablespace >2 and my indexes are in tablespace 4. It's all 1 disk. Well, with NT, you just make your dbspaces as OS files, so it doesn't really change anything, does it? >Does anyone have any experience with these things. Only bad ones. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
I had a vision of hell: a big room full of NT servers in RAID 5 configuration. In a little corner was obnoxio in front of an exchange server answering 4 million emails that had nothing but the word 'remove' in the body of the e-mail. ;-) "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8emgsl$jcr$1@news.xmission.com... > > Which planet are you from, then? :-) > > You clearly haven't been paying attention to Art's rants (and mine!) about > the evils of RAID 5... > > From: Thiel Franky <franky.thiel@INFOHOS.BE> > > > >We have to reinstall a Nt server into RAID 5 situation. > >We use IDS 7.30 TC 5 on NT 4.0. > > > >In the past we had 1 NT server with 4 disks. > > > >Disk 1 (NT + software) > >Disk 2 tables disk 2 + indexes tables disk 4 > >Disk 3 tables disk 3 + indexes tables disk 2 > >Disk 4 tables disk 4 + indexes tables disk 3 > > > >Now the server must be reinstalled : > > > >Disk 1 (NT + software) > >DISK 2 = disk 2 + disk 3 + disk 4 (RAID 5) > > > >In the past I had a sutation where all the tables of one disk were located > >in one dbspace and on that disk. > > > >With my RAID 5, I cannot tell Informix anymore that my data is in > >tablespace > >2 and my indexes are in tablespace 4. It's all 1 disk. > > Well, with NT, you just make your dbspaces as OS files, so it doesn't really > change anything, does it? > > >Does anyone have any experience with these things. > > Only bad ones. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >
"Greg Starnes" <gstarnes@ep-services.com> writes: > I had a vision of hell: a big room full of NT servers in RAID 5 > configuration. In a little corner was obnoxio in front of an exchange > server answering 4 million emails that had nothing but the word 'remove' in > the body of the e-mail. > > ;-) Sounds like heaven to me;) Thomas
On Tue, 2 May 2000 14:14:10 -0700, "Greg Starnes" <gstarnes@ep-services.com> wrote: >I had a vision of hell: a big room full of NT servers in RAID 5 >configuration. In a little corner was obnoxio in front of an exchange >server answering 4 million emails that had nothing but the word 'remove' in >the body of the e-mail. You should have a look at: http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00feb/20000227.html Axel ;-)