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From: Randy Bradley <bradley_at_marcvm.marc.usda.gov>
Date: 1997/06/10
Message-ID: <bradley.1216363077A@aux>#1/1

Hi All You Performance Tuning Wizards,

I'm just setting up a DEC Alpha 4100 with a raid controller. I've configured the raid to level 5. It has 3 busses with 5 4GB disks each and 1 hot spare. I've configured it to 5 logical disks, each one with 8GB. Now I'm setting up the Logical Storage Manager and Advanced File System and it seems like I've got a lot of options. I'm thinking I'll use one logical disk for /users and one for /oracle. Perhaps one for data tablespaces and one for index tablespaces and another for roll back segments. I started to partition these logical disks, after all 8GB is a lot but then I read that one should avoid splitting a disk between two file domains in AFS. Should I even worry about performance since the partition is striped across 3 drives already. I guess not all of the partitions really have to be AFS.

Thanks for your ideas,

Randy

"Around it! Around it! Confoundit. Nobody gave me the specifications. I have to do everything myself around here." Gopher-The Great Honeypot Robbery Received on Tue Jun 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT