RE: RAID Question

Posted in 2000

Obnoxio The Clown — Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:34:33 -0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: Benny Lago <benlag@aent.com> > >You can create any number of volume groups and they can be of any size but >there are only 16 physical disks (36GB each). The OS striping would use 2 >disks (72GB total) to create 1 volume group. This would leave me with 8 >volume groups (72GB each). > >Are you implying breaking up the physical disks into groups?? 16 disks * 36GB: Stripe across all 16 drives, and create logical volumes of 2GB. The number of volume groups is, I suspect, largely irrelevant in this case. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com