In preparation to setup Oracle 8.05 on NT 4.0, I am trying to find
information on what would be an optimal value to use for the NT block
size. When NT formats the boot drive, by default it assigns 512 bytes /
sector and 8 sectors / cluster. Additional drives can formatted with a
default allocation size of 512 thru 4096 which ends up being 1 to 8
sectors per cluster. From what I read in this newsgroup, it appears
that 4K or 8K Oracle blocksizes are the way to go. I would like to get
some feedback from NT DBAs who could help me answer these questions:
Is the NT cluster size and the NT blocksize synonomous? What cluster
size is recommended for a 4K or 8K Oracle blocksize? During the NT
installation, how can one format the C drive as an NTFS volume with a
default allocation size other that 512? Are there any Oracle for NT
books (or platform related documentation) that discusses these types of
issues? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Don Hall
Received on Mon Mar 29 1999 - 14:00:51 CST
