Re: Solaris DiskSuite and Oracle: Any comments ?

Strangely I've just come across this for the first time today, and it seems to be somewhat deficient when it comes to creating useful databases as raw files.

If someone can correct me I'll be delighted, but I understand that DiskSuite can only support 7 partitions per physical device, and a single logical raw device can only be defined as a collection of complete partitions.

This seems to be somewhat limiting as I would like to create 12 data files of 600 MB each where each file is spread across 6 discs, i.e. 100 MB per file per disc - however this would require 12 partitions
per disc.

Solution: create large file systems, and create the 12 files in the one
filesystem.

Jonathan Lewis

The man from the great white north <anti-spam-gdallair_at_criq.qc.ca> wrote in article <3551b30b.1733917_at_news.risq.qc.ca>...
> Is anyone using Solaris DiskSuite with Oracle ? I would like to
have
> your comments (positive/negative) please.
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> I'm used to HARDWARE RAID on DEC machines and it worked like a
charm
> with Oracle, but I wonder if solaris disksuite will fit well in a
> database environment. We don't have the money to buy hardware raid
but
> we need almost 7/24 uptime, so we'll use disksuite. Just wanted to
> know if there are big problems with it...
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Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 16:28:27 CDT