Sounds very plausible to me.

I can't see any flaws at all in your cunning plan.

At 08:37 AM 2003-10-07, Andrew Cartledge wrote:
>Can anyone see any flaws in my cunning plan.
>
>I have system that is mirrored.
>
>This holds both a production (live) account and a test account.
>
>The drawback, as I see it, is that for every n gig of disk I only really
>have half of it really available.
>
>I am toying with the idea of adding some new disks but assigninging it to a
>non mirrored volume set i.e. test_set. I will leave the live account on the
>mirrored set i.e. live_set and move/build a test account on a non mirrored
>test_set volume set.
>
>This will reduce the amount of disk required by the test system i.e.
>basically half that required by the live account if I dump the live account
>into the test account.
>
>Does anyone do this?
>
>Can anyone see any problems with what appears to be a simple solution?
>
>I assume that when bulding files in the live account they will end up on
>the mirrored volume as the account/groups are assigned via ONVS/HOMEVS to
>the mirrored volume wilst the test data will end up on the none mirrored
>volumes.
>
>The applications will have to run across the volumes as I will have them on
>the mirrored set.
>
>TIA
>
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