Re: Striping Disks

Ashish Shah wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have 6 * 9 GB disks on Sun solaris. Any
> recomendations abouts how do I go about
> striping them for better I/O.
>
> Make sure you include redo,system,data,indx,arch,temp,
> and backup files..

If all you're concerned about is I/O performance, then mount each disk separately and spread your tablespaces across them. But in doing so, you'll sacrifice fault tolerance. If at all possible, you should have at least 7 physically separate and redundant file systems (i.e. RAID 1 or 10).

Cheers,

g

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