Hi, If you do go for the RAID option, I recomend you use RAID 5.
I have currently RAID 5 under RH 5.1 with a mysql db of 10 MB and
everything's running smooth.
Under RAID 5, you will have the oportunity to "add" HD's as needed.
Regards,
Jorge del Conde
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Nils Swart wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a little problem with MySQL 3.22.13-beta.
>
> The database i'm using is growing too fast, and is over 50 million records
> at this moment (total size + indexes is approx. 5.5GB). As it has the
> ability to grow to about 6.1 GB on this harddrive i want to solve this.
>
> Does MySQL have the ability to spread the files over different disks ? eg.
> the indexes and the data files spread over different paths (and different
> disks)
>
> Furthermore, is it possible to create a database that has another 'home'
> path then the standard $DATADIR MySQL uses ?
>
>
> Are these pure source-hacking jobs, or just configuration options I
> didn't see ? Is it possible or planned that these features become
> available in (near) future releases ?
>
>
> (Oh btw, i've thought of a RAID0 set, but the problem is that this DB will
> be growing & growing.. I'd need to use some AMI RAID board which can
> handle addition of disks after the RAID set has been made etc etc..)
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Greets,
> Nils Swart
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>
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