Re: disk partition question

"Robert P. McGraw, Jr." a écrit :
>
> I am NOT an Oracle DBA but have been asked to install oracle 8.1.5 or a
> Sun Solaris 4500 and a A1000 Disk Array. Another real DBA will do the
> actually creation of the data base.
>
> I have made 1 big RAID 5 disk on the A1000 for the data bases.
>
> I have been told that I should use format to create the /u01
> /u02..../u06 partions for the DB. My questions is why or why not make
> directories like /export/oracle/u01....export/oracle/u06 and then link
> these to /u01 /u02.../u06. It seems that having on big LUN and having
> the links give more room for the db to expand. If I had individual
> partitions then I am limited to the space in each partition.
>
> Can someone explain the pros or cons of both ways.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert

hi

you use different filesystem to perform to access of file. But if is a small db with no more transaction you can use directories, else you must create filesystem. (you can see chapter on oracle DOC to OFA) christophe delcenserie Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 13:20:08 CDT