Re: Mixed raw and Ufs partitions

Dirk Kiehne wrote:
>
> A question for the experts,
>
> I have a development environment:
>
> Solaris 8
> Oracle 8.1.7
> Our servers interacting with Oracle
> Two internal SCSI HDs (4.2G and 9.0G)
>
> I'm considering switching my Boot Drive (4.2G)
> to the (9.0G) and installing Oracle on the (4.2G)
> with Oracle running in raw partions.
>
> From my experience installing OPS into Veritas
> logical volumes on another machine, I would need
> 13 partitions:
>
> system
> user
> temp
> rbs
> indx
> tools
> drsys
> control1
> control2
> redo1_1
> redo2_2
> redo2_1
> redo2_2
>
> but I have only potentially 11 available:
>
> 4 on the "new" (9.0G): after using /, swap, backup and /liberate
> 7 on the (4.2G): after using backup
>
> Could someone recommend which HD I should put them on and
> which could reside on Ufs without affecting performance??
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Dirk

A workable compromise given the small number of disks, could be redo logs on raw, the rest on a direct I/O mounted file system.

HTH

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