[clue-tech] removing foot with gunfire.

[Jack Parker]

Actually it's pretty standard to put your data somewhere else and spread the
load across disks.  I'm not familiar enough with MySQL to talk to it, but
with Orrible and DB2 I keep the actual data files in a /usr/data directory -
to which multiple disks or a RAID volume can be mounted.  I've seen a lot of
production Orrible DBAs put them under /u01, /u02 etc.  With Informix we
prefer to use raw disks - which are again mounted on their own.  To some
degree it isolates you from OS disk issues and spreads the load.

j.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:clue-tech-bounces at cluedenver.org]On Behalf Of Roy J. Tellason
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:34 AM
To: CLUE tech
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] removing foot with gunfire.


On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:21 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> 7) I really need a good scheme for keeping the actual mysql and
> postgres and oracle databases in a common place, too. Perhaps someone
> would like to contribute an article on that topic. Lots of symlinks, I
> presume. <rant> Why in blazes did unix/linux idiots come up with the
> concept of storing databases under /var along with all the
> self-healing data that belongs in /var </rant>

Where would you put 'em?  I was reading something yesterday about the whole
filesystem hierarchy,  and all sorts of stuff in there addressed various
program files and config files,  but not much was said about where you'd
store your actual _data_,  of which I'm accumulating a fair pile here...

--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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