Hmmm, I said OS and applications on the raid 5 set.

Database goes on the mirror.

Lets not mix our Raids, and lets read what I wrote.

Sam.

Florin Iucha wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:15:01PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote:
>  
>
>>With databases I like a configuration where the OS and applications are 
>>on a Raid 5 set.  I like databases on mirror sets with their own 
>>controller.  Again, not knowing you hardware makes it tough.
>>    
>>
>
>"Let's RAID5" is the wrong thing to do with a real database.
>
>A real database has separate tablespaces so you can place data, redo
>logs, indices, sort areas, temp areas onto separate spindles. Data and
>redo logs are critical, and should be mirrored. The others are
>disposable, but you want them on the fastest spindles you have.
>
>Cheers,
>florin
>
>  
>


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