Re: Physical Layout of disk to use Oracle

Y. Gagnon wrote:

>Hi,
>
>By my experience SAME is a cheap trade-off; for more info have a look at BAARF
>(www.baarf.com) and HotSos (www.hotsos.com).
>
>The best way to separate db files are to stay with OFA.
>
>Yannick
>
>On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:40:45+0200"MK"<MK_at_foo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>"Hari Om" <hari_om_at_hotmail.com> wrote
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>I've just returned from a database-related conference.
>>There was I nice paper, describing how to
>>approach physical layout for the highest
>>THROUGHPUT of any configuration: stripe (and
>>mirror, if possible) everything. Also, don't separate
>>indexes and data.
>>
>>
>>

OFA has nothing to do with it. And OFA was developed for Oracle 7 which a long time before the hardware, operating systems, and large systems we deal with today.

OFA is fine for many aspects of layout. But I certainly wouldn't ask it to do what it was never intended to address.

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