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

Thanks Folks for the support

MWF wrote -> Unless your underlying physical media is ssd, flash, or those fancy new 4K sector drives, it is likely whatever you are looking at is assembled from 512 byte "sectors."

HP who co-anchor this benchmark gave the following:- HP-UX B.11.31
system device block size(think this is the O.S. block size) = 1K Base page size = 4K.
DB_block_size = 8K
This seemingly indicates an O.S. Block size of 1K though I have never before heard of such a size... usually knew O.S. Block size to be 512 Bytes (1/2 KB).

MWF wrote -> Greg bases his opinions on measured facts, and if you have some facts about your choice I would also like to hear them. That is not a slap, but a genuine question.

My Reasons for preferring Mounted F.S. over ASM in a NON-RAc scenario are mostly the same as given by Jared:-

• F.S. are a Comfort zone & I have historically & traditionally used them for a while.
• Additional instance for ASM
• file management is simpler
• storage admins have easy direct access to see what's on disk.

Cheers

Vivek

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