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the idea behind OFA is to separate your various datafiles across
different disk spindles to optimize performance. Mount point naming
conventions are entirely up to you, although the "standard" practice
uses /u01, /u02, /u03, etc. On Unix, the mount points are typically
filesystems. AIX LVM simplifies the creation and striping of your
filesystems / mountpoints. If you can get a copy of the Oracle 8 DBA
Handbood by Oracle Press, check out Chapter 4, Physical Database
Layouts. It provides some suggestions on how to weight your different
applications, and how to distribute the datafiles based on the number of
disks you have available to you. Keep in mind that Oracle tuning is an
iterative process, not a do-it-and-forget-about-it process. Database
tuning includes I/O tuning, so watch your datafile I/O stats and
relocate datafiles to different disks/mount points as necessary.
HTH,
Roy
In article <7u2tcv$45g$1_at_bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>,
"Clif Wade" <cwade_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> I need clarification on mount points for an OFA Compliant
Installation.
> Oracle requires mount points for software and the database. Is it
suggesting
> that the software mount points be a file system or simply a directory?
Are
> the mount points for the database(s) files systems? Obviously, I am
> confused rather mount points should be file systems or directories
under
> root. What are the suggested mount point configurations under UNIX?
>
> Thanks!!!!!
>
>
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