Re: Striping with Oracle

From: Tim Read - Sun Linlithgow - Principal SE and DB Specialist <timr_at_cerrera.uk.sun.com>
Date: 24 Aug 1994 09:03:27 GMT
Message-ID: <33f2cv$pg8_at_uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>


The later is only true if you are using RAID level 3 or 5. With RAID level 0 or striping the loss of a disk means the loss of the stripe as a whole.

Tim

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In article 905_at_compudata.com, barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com (Barry Roomberg) writes:

>-> only need to recover one file system. However if you strip the 5
>-> file systems over all 5 disks, and a disk fails, you need to recover
>-> all 5 file systems.
>
>Huh? Usually when you stripe using 5 disks, one will be for
>parity, which means you lose NOTHING. Just replace the disk
>and rebuild.
Received on Wed Aug 24 1994 - 11:03:27 CEST

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