Re: SAME methodology opinions?

From: Bass Chorng <bchorng_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 7 Mar 2003 16:53:42 -0800
Message-ID: <bd9a9a76.0303071653.41b5878a@posting.google.com>

yong321_at_yahoo.com (Yong Huang) wrote in message news:<b3cb12d6.0303051529.4a510537_at_posting.google.com>...
> I remember Steve Adams said he didn't quite agree with SAME but Anjo
> Kolk strongly proposed it.
>
> Look here: http://www.ixora.com.au/newsletter/2000_10.htm#same and
> http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0104/18192003.htm
>
> Yong Huang

I am also a big fan of Steve Adams. He has talked about this in 2001 Oracle Openworld that SAME is one of the 7 deadly sins.

However, my honest opinion is, if you do not have real load challenge, go ahead use SAME, even with RAID 5. For most sites this just work fine. Chances are that your NVRAM will cover all your wrong doings.

If you expect to have real load challenge, then do all the home work and plan your IO. I have seen sites that can only survive this way. Received on Fri Mar 07 2003 - 18:53:42 CST