On aix, I prefer to make a 73GB striped volume, then mirror it to the
other disks. Use the smallest stripe width (4k). If you are not on
AIX, then I don't know if you can stripe or not.
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
> Question:
>
> Lets say I have 4 36gb disks.
>
> Is it better to create one db volume sized at 33gb on 2 disks, and mirror it
> on the others, or should you create 2 16.5gb db volumes on each 36gb disk
> and mirror those on the other 2 disks?
>
> Geoff Gill
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