Re: Database Block Size

From: Walter T Rejuney <BlueSax_at_Unforgetable.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:29:42 -0400
Message-ID: <39EC6256.19F824F0@Unforgetable.com>

"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:

>
> Have you read the documentation for the Backup and Recovery course??? The
> DBA course is bad enough, but the BUR one is worse. And no, complaining
> about it doesn't make a bit of difference. So whatever the documentation
> says, talk to the experts, and Steve Adams knows what he's talking about it
> (as far as I'm concerned, anyway).
>
> And he says 8K is a given for most Unixes with file systems, for reasons
> that make entire good sense as far as I can work out.
>
> So take it up with him.
>
> Personally, I reckon this subject arouses so much debate because there are
> so many DBAs out there who made the wrong decision, and don't like to admit
> it. Probably too much effort to fix the balls-up.
>
> Regards
> HJR
But how can you know which UNIXs it applies to and which it does not apply to? Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 09:29:42 CDT