Re: Oracle & RAID strategy question

From: Kate Kwiatek <kkwiatek_at_mediaone.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:07:05 GMT
Message-ID: <3ADE1DA4.C862FD86@mediaone.net>

Thanks to all for their replies. I'm going to do Raid 0+1(mirror, then stripe) using a 64K stripe size.

Kate

Steve Long wrote:

> the oracle block size should equal a physical disk block size. the minor
> loss of efficiency for small tables is made up for in the gains with the
> large tables.
>
> "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote in message
> news:3adc3853.1213345_at_news-server...
> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:30:30 +0200, Hieraklion <hieraklion_at_spray.fr>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >For moast workloads, use the default 64K stripe unit size for stripped
> > >volumes and 16K for Raid-5 volumes.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Intersting. I wonder if there is any
> > recomendation is what regards db block size for this stripe size?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
> > nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
> > http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
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