Re: LVM vs RAID 1+0

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_acay.com.au>
Date: 1997/01/28
Message-ID: <32EDF9D7.3C1@acay.com.au>#1/1

Huberts wrote:
>
> With LVM you may :
> - shutdown your DB
> - detach a mirrored disk to take your backup 'off-line'
> - restart your db
> - resilver with another disk
>
> It is easy, fast , downtime of minuts and secure (i never play with hot backup

Ahhh, now,now, Hubert! RAID is supposed to do all that automatically. Pity in most cases it only does half. But who are we to contradict the RAID h/w makers? After all, there is a BIG buck to be made out of fooling the innocents... <G> Received on Tue Jan 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CST