Re: OFA on a single disk system

Hi Christopher. All's fair on the newsgroups - I hope that you don't hold a grudge.

The main reason for using OFA is to separate binaries and config files - specific to the version of Oracle that is being used in that home - from database files, that you want to survive multiple iterations of upgrading.

For 1 single drive, as long as you have one mount point for product, and one for data, you should be fine. In fact, by separating the single RAID device into different volumes, you guarantee larger seek times than if you have a single mount point for all log, ctrl and data files.

hth,

Paul

jack wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to set up and OFA compliant Oracle system on a single disk
> system (well, two disks, but they are mirrored). Reading through the
> documentation, and some of the postings here, it seems like the four
> partition scheme that Oracle suggests doesn't make sense for me, and
> I'm thinking of the following scheme:
>
> /opt/oracle/d01
> on one partition (for the Oracle application) and,
>
> /opt/oracle/d02, /opt/oracle/d03, /opt/oracle/d04
> on another partition (Oracle data).
>
> I'm using d02, d03 and d04 instead of putting all the data in one
> directory for upgrade flexibility.
>
> I'd like to know if anyone sees a problem with this configuration, or
> have a better idea.
> One problem that I see right now is that because the Oracle data,
> index and rollback etc are on the same partition, the files might get
> fragmented. Can anyone comment on this?
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Jack
Received on Sat Sep 22 2001 - 10:39:29 CDT