Re: The RAID Shuffle...

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? >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? My 497 euros. _________________________________________________________________________ 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.

Obnoxio The Clown 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? > > >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? Clowny, the man said he's moving OFF RAID5 to mirrored pairs. Leave him alone, he's on our side. Art S. Kagel