[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:07:01 -0400, David Froble wrote:

> One specific, I was never very fond of multi-volume disk sets.  I know
> why they existed, but didn't like them.  RAID is better.  Probably I'm
> just too set in some ways, but, I do like to have separate disks.  I
> REALLY like to have a separate system disk.

I never liked them either.  Using controllers which could present a 
couple of disks as one to the O/S was much neater.

It's a long time since I looked at this but IIRC a major disadvantage for 
recovery purposes is that you cannot do an image restore to multi-volume 
disk sets.

IIRC (again) this is because BACKUP/IMAGE requires the target to be 
mounted /FOREIGN, and there's no way of binding two or more disks 
together with /FOREIGN.

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Paul Sture