Re: Physical I/O on a SAN or NAS

Ryan Gaffuri wrote:

> We are using an NAS. Are there any conventions to handling Physical
> I/O distribution on NAS or SANs? They are relatively new. Since we
> dont control which disk or mount point datafiles go on, we really
> can't spread out the I/O. Does it matter if we put tables in different
> datafiles then?
>
> any conventions or articles would be helpful.

Doesn't matter, for performance, what you do if it is all one drive.

But how about for maintenance purposes?

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