RE: Filesystem Block Size ? 1K or 4K or 8K ?

From: VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:40:01 +0530
Message-ID: <69E1360E54B50C4A828A136C158E474205392DF827@BLRKECMBX02.ad.infosys.com>


WOW Greg.

Probably I still belong to the Old Technology of using Mounted Filesystems for Database in a NON-RAC scenario.

Cheers

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From: Greg Rahn [mailto:greg_at_structureddata.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:21 AM To: VIVEK_SHARMA
Subject: Re: Filesystem Block Size ? 1K or 4K or 8K ?

Out of curiosity, why are you choosing VxFS over ASM?


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:23 AM, VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com> wrote:

> Should the Filesystem (VXFS) Block Size be set to 1K, 4K or 8K? ... Personally

> I think it should be 4 K (i.e. Equal to the Page-size)

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Regards,

Greg Rahn

http://structureddata.org

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