Re: RAID and Redo Logs

From: <gowri_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 02:03:54 GMT
Message-ID: <6v99ea$3ul$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

In article <36170F95.16BD_at_gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>, Brian Yan <by2_at_gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> I was told by a DBA that the disk where the redo log resides should not
> be configured as RAID. Is it true and why? Thank you in advance!
>
> Brian
>

The Redolog files are always read and written by Oracle sequentially where as the files are striped and paced across the disk set of RAID(RAID3 or RAID5). However you may place the redologs files on RAID1 set.

Gowri

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