Re: Logical log write volumes

> My personal view is that the inherent data vulnerability of buffered > logging is not acceptable in the vast majority of applications. Agreed in principle. Though it's frightening how many sites throw them away to /dev/null. Then wonder why they can't rebuild the system. Just a thought, from a performance point of view, if you have a system where the logs are being hammered and you're doing continuous backups, does anyone think there's a case for putting *alternate* logs on different drives, so as to eliminate contention between reads (for the backup) and writes? Assuming the backup is nearly always one log behind, this should reduce the problem in extreme log-hit cases...? akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) ------------------------------------------------ Freelance Informix Database Specialist, Redland, Bristol, England