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RE: Another datafile sizing question

From: Browett, Darren <dbrowett_at_city.coquitlam.bc.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:31:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004DA193.20020926083125@fatcity.com>


Our SAN has been setup as RAID5, so the use of single large datafiles is probably the method I will go with, using the added option of resizing once I read up on it some more :)

Darren

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Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

It's late at night maybe that's why I do not understand your answer but I do not see the link between LMT and the number/size of datafiles.

One reason of multiple datafiles id to spread IO but since nowadays a majority of sites goes on huge disk box using raid 5 (that's what we have, the unix guys are the IT master here) multiple files is less meaningful.

What I liked is a file politics where you restrained the number of file size. Here we have from 15M up to 8.5G file size with all the possibility in between. I'm trying to standardize all that.

Another factor to consider is backup and recovery. Restoring a 10G file will take more time than a 2G file.

In your case, if file placement is not possible than go for a 800M file and use a second one for the future growth.


Stéphane Paquette
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