Re: Placing Datafiles in a Striped environment

Christian Lang wrote:
>
> Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com> wrote in message news:<3B8DD8D5.D644F26E_at_home.com>...
> > Operating System?
> > File system used/Raw?
> >
> > Christian Lang wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > in a lot of Articels about Striping there was spoken about to placing
> > > frequently accessed Datafiles on the outside half of the Disk.
> > > Well, how can I do this. How can I put Datafiles to the outside?
> > > Are Files wich are created at first located at the outer edge?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Chris
>
> Oh yes sorry,
> I'm running on Sun Solaris 2.6 using an A5200 Strage,
> configured with Veritas Volumne Manager and We want to use Filesystems.
>
> thanks
> Chris

With file systems you are going to struggle to do this since file systems tend to plonk stuff all over the place. Raw devices are a better option if you intend going to this level.

hth
connor

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