Re: Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA)

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1068937917.526325_at_yasure...
> Your name wrote:
>
> > I am new to Oracle and am preparing to install on a Linux box.
> >
> > Is Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) commonly used?
> >
> > Thank you for your comments,
> > R. Harkins
> >
>
> I would describe it as essential. This does not mean that there aren't
> shops that ignore it. But they pay a price forever when they bring in
> new people or ask for support.

I hate to be contrary, but I would say that OFA is largely redundant for many shops these days. When you have RAID, OFA's efforts to separate tablespaces from each other on the basis of their tendency to I/O conflict is pretty redundant. The file naming conventions are still sound, but not if you ever start dipping your toes into OMF-created files. The product separation principles (ie, how to have 8, 8i and 9i all co-exist on the same box) are equally still sound... but rather fly in the face of the general advice to have one database (and hence one version) per server.

All in all, I would say OFA has a lot to say about sensible layouts, but not a lot practically to contribute these days.

Regards
HJR Received on Sat Nov 15 2003 - 17:23:17 CST