Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B1C64FD25 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:16:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68461-01-4 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:15:56 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1D564FCBF for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:15:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from jd-laptop (or-69-34-217-90.sta.embarqhsd.net [69.34.217.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m894IoG4004760 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:18:52 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:16:20 -0700 From: Joshua Drake To: "Scott Marlowe" Cc: "Rainer Mager" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: best use of another drive Message-ID: <20080908211620.74010427@jd-laptop> In-Reply-To: References: <000501c91222$743d9230$5cb8b690$@com> Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:18:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/96 X-Sequence-Number: 31409 On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:11:25 -0600 "Scott Marlowe" wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Rainer Mager > 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