Thanks. I should have mentioned the existing disk and the new one are already both mirrored (not together, though :-p). So we had 2 drives that were mirrored and just added 2 more that are mirrored. --Rainer -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Drake [mailto:jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:16 PM To: Scott Marlowe Cc: Rainer Mager; pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PERFORM] best use of another drive On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:11:25 -0600 "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Rainer Mager <rainer@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I've recently installed another drive in my db server and was > > wondering what the best use of it is. Some thoughts I have are: > > Being a DBA, I'd tend to say make it a mirror of the first drive. > +1 -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
