Re: The RAID Shuffle...

From: Carlos Benjamin <benj@firstlinux.net> > >--- "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > >From: "Mr. Anonymous" <mranonnymouse@yahoo.com> > >> > >>Hello from the intensely-contested electoral state of Florida. > > > >Lucky old you. > > > >>I've been shoveling my way through a disaster of a db (inherited from an > >>admin whose idea of research was glossy full-page magazine ads) and am > >>about > >>ready to shift all the dbspaces on a RAID 5 array to a mirroring array. > > > >So, it's running on Oracle, then? > >Maybe it's the election commission's database and that's why they're having >to recount by hand.... > > >>We are currently running 5.1, and the new and old RAID arrays are all > >>hardware-based. (The ECCS Synchronix 1000, if you care.) We will not be > >>fragmenting (yet) as we're still using 5.1's ROW_ID 'feature'. > >> > >>Before I do so, any caveats? I've already performed individual backups >of > >>each dbspace, as well as an overall backup of the config files, etc. > > > >RAID5 suck lemons, is pants and is for data you want to chuck away. Why >not > >save load time and just link everything to /dev/null? > >I must have read it differently than you did. Looked to me like they were >moving away from RAID 5. Yes, so? > >My 497 euros. > >Devaluating the currency already? *I* don't have to. :-) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.