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Hi, Its not RAID. Its a cluster software as series of disks will be in a box accessed by differenct Unix servers. Thanks. Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: Obnoxio The Clown [SMTP:obnoxio@hotmail.com] > Sent: 01 June, 2000 11:44 ' > To: sampath@gulfins.com.kw; informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: > > From: SAMPATH <sampath@gulfins.com.kw> > > > > We're having IDS 7.3 running on Alpha 4100. All DBspaces are raw > >partitions and mirrored. We are planning to move the disks out of > >machine and put them as a disk array with clustering software from > >Compaq. 5 disks + 1 emergency disk. Has anyone tried this before? If > one > >of the disks with dbspaces fails, will the emergency disk take over > with > >Informix? An early solution will be highly appreciated > > Sounds suspiciously like a RAID 5 solution, and I don't like RAID 5. > RAID 5 > does not verify the parity it writes, and I've seen a corrupted RAID 5 > let > go big time. It was very ugly. > > NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO > RAID 5! > NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO > RAID 5! > NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! > ______________________________________________________________________ > __ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com