From: "Rainer Mager" <rainer@vanten.com>
To: "'Joshua Drake'" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
	"'Scott Marlowe'" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: best use of another drive
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:35:12 +0900
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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@commandprompt.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:16 PM
To: Scott Marlowe
Cc: Rainer Mager; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] best use of another drive

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:11:25 -0600
"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Rainer Mager <rainer@vanten.com>
> 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

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