Re: Advice sought : new database server

On 03/04/2012 03:58 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I'd be grateful for advice on specifying the new server
>
> providing about 230GB of usable storage, 150GB of which is on an LV
> providing reconfigurable space for the databases which are served off an
> XFS formatted volume.
>

Do you mean LVM?  I've heard that LVM limits IO, so if you want full speed you might wanna drop LVM.  (And XFS supports
increasingfs size, and when are you ever really gonna want to decrease fs size?). 

-Andy