Re: Striping with Oracle

In article <12a.4290.905_at_compudata.com>, Barry Roomberg <barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com> wrote:
>-> 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.

Not necessarily. Striping is one thing, striping with parity is another. You can stripe without having a parity drive and the above scenario pans out.

Mike

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