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    From Everett Mills@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 12 15:23:14 2018
    Test message. I haven't seen anything from the email list since May.

    --EEM

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  • From Paul Watson@21:1/5 to Lester Knutsen on Fri Oct 12 11:55:09 2018
    Copy: [email protected]

    I remember working on that code back in the dark ages, probably pre-2000,
    when Walter (??) was in charge of the cdi/email stuff

    Cheers
    Paul

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    Art,<br>
    <br>
    What happened to the simple old informix-list mailing list and
    gateway to cdi?  <br>
    <br>
    Regards - Lester<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/18 12:37 PM, Art Kagel
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    <div dir="auto">Everett:</div>
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    <div dir="auto">I know. As you know we have had some problems
    with our email providers and the effort to build a new forum
    site has been hampered because the original forums were a
    custom build and the programmer who wrote it has retired to
    Malaysia or somewhere like that and can't be reached so we are
    struggling to extract the forum history in a for that we can
    load it into a new standard system.</div>
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    <div>FYI, someone has started two new Whatsapp groups for
    Informix users. One for DBAs and the other for 4GL issues. Let
    me know if you would like me to have you added to either or
    both groups if you haven't found them yet.</div>
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    <div>Art</div>
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    <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 12, 2018 11:23, "Everett Mills"
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    message.  I haven't seen anything from the email list since
    May.<br>
    <br>
    --EEM<br>
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    href="http://members.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list"
    rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
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    Lester Knutsen <a
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  • From Paul Watson@21:1/5 to Art Kagel on Fri Oct 12 12:12:24 2018
    Copy: [email protected] (IIUG Informix List)

    re: RAID6 - I was in the unfortunate position of having an old RAID6 setup recently, a disk had gone bad. Total rebuild

    Cheers
    Paul

    James:

    Sorry James. I have just been too busy to go read through the forums. The current interface is klunky, as you know, so it takes too long to follow threads to see if there's something I can add to a discussion, so I do it only infrequently. I also relied on the email gateway, so I have taken
    charge of the work to get new forum software going. Now on to your
    question:

    Run, run as fast as you can! RAID60 is the absolutely STUPIDEST
    contraption
    ever imagined. Think about it:

    Let's take a bunch of RAID6 arrays that are only marginally better than
    RAID5 in one of the several ways that RAID5 is at risk and is even slower
    to write to. Next how about lets stripe that bunch of RAID6 arrays
    together
    with not additional redundancy so that if we do lose two drives in one of
    the RAID6s or the data becomes corrupted by creeping disk damage we will
    have three or four times as much data at risk!

    RAID10 all the way! The additional cost is relatively small and your data will be 95% safer, recovery will take 80% less time if you do lose a
    single
    drive. Performance during recovery will be 80% faster and your data during recovery at least 80% safer.

    BTW, feel free to send me questions directly. I will let you know if you cross a line. B^)

    Art

    Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
    ASK Database Management
    www.askdbmgt.com

    Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/

    Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions
    and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do
    those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any
    entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves.





    On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:47 PM Rubinstein, James <[email protected]> wrote:

    I’ve definitely been missing the forums. I had posted something using
    the
    web interface about a week ago and really hoping that you would answer.
    Since email hasn’t been working, there is definitely a lot less
    activity on
    the forums.

    My posting on October 4 was:

    I am working with my network team to replace some 5+ year old hardware
    for
    my Informix/Webserver environment. We are running IDS 12.10 on SLES 11
    in a
    virtual (VMWare) environment. Our dbspace is approximately 250GB and
    accessed pretty heavily from a cluster of load balanced Apache servers.
    I
    know that RAID5 isn't recommended (
    https://www.askdbmgt.com/why-raid5-should-be-avoided-at-all-costs.html),
    but my networking team and hardware vendor (Tegile) is recommending
    RAID60.
    I am hesitant to use any RAID level that utilizes parity, but this is
    way
    beyond my area of expertise, and I'm curious to hear recommendations
    from
    the community.

    On Oct 12, 2018, at 9:37 AM, Art Kagel <[email protected]> wrote:

    Everett:

    I know. As you know we have had some problems with our email providers
    and
    the effort to build a new forum site has been hampered because the
    original
    forums were a custom build and the programmer who wrote it has retired
    to
    Malaysia or somewhere like that and can't be reached so we are
    struggling
    to extract the forum history in a for that we can load it into a new
    standard system.

    FYI, someone has started two new Whatsapp groups for Informix users. One
    for DBAs and the other for 4GL issues. Let me know if you would like me
    to
    have you added to either or both groups if you haven't found them yet.

    Art

    On Oct 12, 2018 11:23, "Everett Mills" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Test message. I haven't seen anything from the email list since May.

    --EEM
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    --
    Paul Watson
    Tel: +1 913-674-0360
    Mob: +1 913-387-7529
    Web: www.oninit.com

    Oninit� is a registered trademark of Oninit LLC

    Failure is not as frightening as regret.
    If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
    What this country needs are more unemployed politicians

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