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Fwd: RE: Raw partition Vs File System

From: Bill Buchan <wbuchan_at_uk.intasys.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 03:25:05 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003C9333.20011120030526@fatcity.com>

Hi Steve,

Did you manage to contact Bert? Would you be willing to let us know what you think was wrong with the test anyway?

Many thanks
- Bill.

>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone have an email address for Bert? I looked for his email address
>when I first read that article a week ago,
>but did not find one. I think I know what was wrong with his test, but it
>is hard to be sure because he left out a lot
>of the details.
>
>@ Regards,
>@ Steve Adams
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 21:20
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
>Did anyone read Bert Scalzo's article in Pipeline Newsletter this month
>(http://www.revealnet.com/newsletter-v2/linux2.html)? He was benchmarking
>various filesystems under Linux (EXT2, EXT3, Reiser, IBM JFS and RAW). I
>was suprised (and so was he) to see worst performance on RAW devices. I
>presume this is a Linux-specific issue: can anyone suggest why RAW is so
>poor on Linux (or want to contest the results?!)
>
>Thanks
>- Bill.
>
>At 01:29 09/11/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >If you're using a volume manager (veritias, or disk
> >suite), then raw is pretty much just as easy as file
> >systems.
> >
> >You could always do this incrementally - for example,
> >high io stuff (typically redo, temp, possibly
> >rollback) on raw, and all the rest of file systems
> >etc.
> >
> >hth
> >connor
> >
> > --- Vasu Ramasamy <vasu.ramasamy_at_sri.com> wrote: >
> >Hello Gurus,
> > > I am trying to install Oracle Server in the
> > > environment as given
> > > below. I am in the processes of laying out Physical
> > > Database layout. I
> > > would like to know the pros and cons of going with
> > > Raw partition.
> > >
> > > The environment :
> > >
> > > Solaris 2.6
> > > Oracle 8.1.7
> > > Size of database - 60GB
> > > No. of tables - 3000 (approx.)
> > > Max size of few tables - 3 GB to 5 GB.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > >
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