Re: PostgreSQL advocacy

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Jernigan, Kevin *EXTERN*" <kmj(at)amazon(dot)com>, Rakesh Kumar <rakeshkumar464a3(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL advocacy
Date: 2016-03-24 22:09:21
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B53823907@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at
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Jernigan, Kevin wrote:
> Disk is only a single point of failure in RAC if you configure non-redundant storage.
> In general, Oracle recommends triple mirroring to protect against disk failures,
> as they have had many experiences over the years where customers with mirrored disks
> would see consecutive disk failures within short periods of time.

The single point of failure in Oracle RAC is the ASM file system.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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