FW: RAID Question

Posted in 2000

Benny Lago — Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:03:51 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of fragmentation. In other words wouldn't all the data (and indexes) be on the same set of physical disks? Thanks, Benny Lago Alliance Entertainment, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:35 PM To: benlag@aent.com; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RE: RAID Question 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