Re: RAID 5 on Oracle....?

"Thomas T" <T_at_T> wrote in message news:<3f68766b$1_at_rutgers.edu>...
> "Hari Om" <hari_om_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d1d5ebe4.0309170613.2723083f_at_posting.google.com...
> > I am using Oracle 9.2.0.1 on IBM AIX 5.1L System.
> >
> > Any related informatino on this is appreciated....
> >
> > HARI OM
>
> Hari, I have a similar circumstance (same number of hard drives) on a Win2k
> system with 8i. 6 of the drives (2 thru 7) are raid5, giving us a ton of
> space. I had planned to re-do the storage unit into two raid 5 systems with
> 3 disks each. (Actually, I don't think you can -do- RAID5 with less then
> three disks.) Then I was going to chop up one huge tablespace that
> had -everything- into separate tablespaces, and separate things out among
> the logical drives. Then I was told about Oracle Myths, and pointed to
> here:
> http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:5071430793941
>
> Now I'm not going to bother doing anything with the storage unit, except
> keep up-to-date backups. It certainly makes my life easier! Hope that
> helps.
>
> -Thomas

if you'll have a ton of disc space, then why don't you mirror first (make 3 RAID 1 vols out of the 6 drives) and stripe across them?

that way you won't have any RAID 'F' vols.

Pd Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 18:54:09 CDT