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- From: merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick)
- Subject: Re: Logical Volume Groups
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.120835.2668@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:08:35 GMT
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- In article <5684@hq.hq.af.mil> rknowles@marge.hq.af.mil writes:
- >Howdy,
- > Me and a couple of other guys are about to set up a 530H. Everything was
- >going fine until we got into an argument on logical volume groups. Currently
- >we are divided into at least two camps. One guy wants to have just rootvg,
- >another wants at least two volume groups, and one weenie refused to vote.
- > Obviously there are pros and cons to both setups. With one vol grp, we put
- >the entire system on an image backup. On the other, we have greater control
- >on the location of our data.
- > Does anybody have any good stories/experiences/suggestions out there? Are
- >there any pitfalls we need to be aware of?
- > Thanx,
- > Rick Knowles (rknowles@marge.hq.af.mil)
- > "The weenie who didn't vote"
-
- Since nobody else wants to comment on this I will take the first stab and try
- to get the discussion rolling.
-
- 1) I take it that you have a number of physical disk drives as they may not
- be split across volume groups.
-
- 2) I feel that rootvg should not be a very large volume group as you need to
- make backups of it iplable using the mksysb command. Also this could
- impact you when you need to upgrade AIX (I just went through 3.1.5 to 3.2.2).
-
- 3) If you have multiple physical volumes in a volume group, then the disk
- access times MAY be lowered by spreading the filesystems over several
- physical volumes in the volume group.
-
- 4) The more disks that you have in a volume group leads to more disks having
- some lost data when any one of the physical volumes has to be replaced.
- Since you will have to restore most, and probably all, of the volume group
- with the bad drive in it.
-
- I am going through the same process. I am now planning to purchase 5 2GB
- SCSI drives for a new 53H system. Since AIX cannot have a filesystem greater
- then 2GB, I am planning to have one volume group per physical drive as my
- data access pattern tends to be seldom slurps of large files. If I run into
- some file accessing problems, I may install two filesystems accross two
- drives.
-
- Tom Merrick
- Ohio State University
-