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Re: ASM -- Is it Mirrored Stripes or Striped Mirrors

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:04:48 -0800
Message-ID: <1165593875.431041@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Doug Utzig wrote:

> ASM does neither - its mirroring algorithm is unique.  You can read
> about ASM redundancy here:
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/asm/pdf/asm_10gr2_bptwp_sept05.pdf
> 
> Doug.
> 
> Jagjeet Singh wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to understand about ASM striping and mirroring mechanism.
>>
>> As It is confirm that I does both the things but I want to know whether
>> it does 1+0 or 0+1
>>
>> like First it does mirroring and then striping or striping and then
>> mirroring.
>>
>> Like If I create a normal redundancy diskgroup using
>>
>> create diskgroup dg normal redundancy
>> failgroup f1 disk 'disk1','disk2'
>> failgroup f2 disk 'disk3,disk4';
>>
>> And as per RAID 1+0
>>
>> DG
>> |
>> F1 --------------------------------------F2
>> | |
>> Disk1, Disk2 Disk3,Disk4
>>
>> And suppose 2 blocks [ b1 and b2 ] are occupied or get extended in
>> this diskgroup then would it be speeded like
>>
>>
>> DG
>> |
>> F1 ----------------------------------------- F2
>> | |
>> Disk1, Disk2 Disk3,Disk4
>>
>> b1 b1 b2 .b2
>>
>>
>> or
>>
>> DG
>> |
>> F1 ----------------------------------------- F2
>> | |
>> Disk1, Disk2 Disk3,Disk4
>>
>> b1 b2 b1 .b2
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jagjeet Singh

>

Excellent. Thank you. Good to know for sure rather than just trying to interpret less than clear statements.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Received on Fri Dec 08 2006 - 10:04:48 CST

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