Re: Is Raid 5 really that bad for Oracle?

From: omlet <notrolls_at_notrolls.omlet.org.notrolls>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:43:51 -0400
Message-ID: <45d8b380345d90c61da26304ce7013ad@localhost.talkaboutdatabases.com>

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>> Now the archived logs are another story; again checked for corruption
by
>> the archiver they would be best suited for tapes and MOST IMPORTANTLY
>> SNAPSHOTS. why waste disks and shelve space!

>Because disk drives and disk units ARE a lot cheaper and faster
>than tapes. Duh?

again disk drives and disk units are prone to errors! To store archivelogs on disk drives would make you a pruning target; probably you would be given the boots!.

Again snapshots on disk arrays are great for keeping a recent TRIED copy handy!

Duh some more till I finish wanking! Great Duh-ing! Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 15:43:51 CDT