From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Sep 28 16:20:06 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8SLK5Wk009940 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:20:05 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8SLJw6H009915 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:19:59 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 295171EEA8F; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:19:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13779-04; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:19:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9BFD21EEF94; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:19:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <49D294A7F272B4438355D7343777A994121E56@kingpin.tranzrail.co.nz> From: Dougie McGibbon To: "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" Subject: RE: base 2 or base 10? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:17:52 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C5C472.15DF03A0" X-imss-version: 2.12 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:52.02461 C:20 M:0 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:3 C:1 M:1 S:1 R:1 (0.0500 0.0500) X-archive-position: 26066 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: DMcGibbon@tollnz.co.nz Precedence: normal Reply-To: DMcGibbon@tollnz.co.nz X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5C472.15DF03A0 Content-Type: text/plain > Oracle will round the extent size up to an even block size. So you > should use binary for extent sizes. I always thought Oracle rounded up to the nearest factor of five blocks - ask for 7 blocks and you got 10 ??? Dougie McGibbon ------_=_NextPart_001_01C5C472.15DF03A0 Content-Type: text/html RE: base 2 or base 10?

> Oracle will round the extent size up to an even block size. So you
> should use binary for extent sizes.

I always thought Oracle rounded up to the nearest factor of five blocks - ask for 7 blocks and you got 10 ???


Dougie McGibbon

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