Re: Raid and Oracle

From: Sybrand Bakker <postmaster_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 22:15:26 +0200
Message-ID: <938981816.2632.0.pluto.d4ee154e@news.demon.nl>

Hi Brian,
As a general rule you should not have write-intensive files (especially the online redo log files) on a RAID-5 disk, because of the parity check on each write. Use raid-0 or raid0+1 for those. Raid-5 will do for disks which are more being read than written to.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
Brian Howard <bh_at_creditwatch-inc.com> wrote in message news:37F7AA85.9313DB0D_at_creditwatch-inc.com...
> I am trying to decide what type of RAID to implement on my new network
> under development. It will be using Oracle 8.0.5. Is there any problems
> or issues with any particular type of RAID (5,1,etc.) and the use of
> Oracle? What type of RAID would be the best to implement?
>
Received on Sun Oct 03 1999 - 15:15:26 CDT