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Re: IO Block Size

From: Kingsley Sawyers <no_at_way.im.telling>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:20:56 +0100
Message-ID: <7npdcf$hrk$1@lure.pipex.net>


It's the other way round - the Oracle block size should be set to a whole multiple of the OS block size for efficiency reasons. Which Oracle document did you read this in?

Francis Wong wrote in message <37A0371A.AE4A119C_at_globalserve.net>...
>It is mentioned in the Oracle document that the OS I./O block size
>should be a multiple of the Oracle data block size. But the admin tells
>me that the UNIX block size is only 512 bytes much smaller than the data
>block size which is normally 4k or 8K. Do I misunderstand something?
>
Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 06:20:56 CDT

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