From: NetComrade (netcomrade@bookexchange.net)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 15:11:42 EDT
I have a few a5200 disk arrays, striped and mirrored, but each disk array
has 10 volumes. Since vxprint is extremely ugly and cumbersome to look at,
I figured that I want to combine some of the adjacent volumes into one
(more precisely, to ditch current volumes, and rebuild them with bigger
subdisks).
I was wondering if there are any disadvantages of doing that.
One thing I kind of thought of, is that with smaller volumes you have more
control over which part of the disk you're using (e.g. outer sectors are
supposedly faster). But I never was able to determine where VM starts
counting when building subdisks.
Additionally, after a crash, bigger volume would take longer to sync up,
which would be especially bad if volume has barely any data in it. (as
opposed to a nearly full volume, which only uses a smaller part of the
disk).
But for disk arrays nearly full, this would really ease administration.
Thoughts?
Thanks, will summurize.
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