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Posts tagged SAN

Data Backup(RAID): Build new system or Raid card

Ok, itunes fucked up my music again. I have backed up all my music but all my ratings and etc are gone. So I am done with the nvidia raid that I have previously used. So I have two options. I’ll be reusing my 2 320gb hd
Build a seperate system, run windows server or linux [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: general | Leave a comment

UNIX people… question about block sizes

We use Veritas volumes for our raw devices for Sybase. The DBA just requested that we make our block size match theirs which is 8k. As far as I remember, you only set the block size when creating filesystems. There is no concept of block sizing at the volume level, correct?We use [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: general | Leave a comment