In article <3uud01$at9 at celebrian.otago.ac.nz>,
peter at sanger.otago.ac.nz (Peter Stockwell) writes:
> David Womble (dwomble at cmb.biosci.wayne.edu) wrote:
>>> I would like to purchase a high performance hard disk array for the
>> machine on which we run GCG. Is it possible to distribute the database
>> across the arrayed disks to increase search performance?
>> You don't mention what operating system you are using. If UNIX then
> you can easily distribute the DB by linking files. This allows files
> to reside on any accessible* drive while appearing as directory
> entries where ever you wish.
>> I'm not sure that the GCG installation procedures will necessarily do
> this easily - you may need to decompose or edit command files to make
> it work.
>> * accessible = readable by NFS or UFS from the GCG system.
If (VMS or UNIX) Then Use RAID-0 (commonly known as disk striping);
Oops... I've noticed the bug in the above program :-)
Here's version 1.1 without the bug:
If (.true.) Then Use RAID-0 (commonly known as disk striping);
Roy Omond
System Manager
European Bioinformatics Institute
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Hinxton, Cambs., UK.
