On 09/11/2011 09:44 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
And Andy is right, you'll have a lot less space. If raid 10 doesn't give you enough room, just leave two spare drives for a raid 0 temporary partition. That will be at least twice as fast as doing temporary tables on the raid 6.
Alternatively, throw a lot of memory at the system and point the temp space at /dev/shm. We've had really good luck doing that here, to avoid excessive writes to our NVRAM PCIe cards. Make sure the transaction logs (and any archives) get written to a separate LUN (ideally on a separate controller) for even more win.
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