Re: Poor mans RAID10...

1. you can use partitions, put a different partition datafile on different disk and hash partition the table
2. there has to be some freeware volume management software out there for linux (software raid)

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:02:53 +0100, "Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org> wrote:

>Hi!
>I'm thinking of distributing one tablespace across several spindles simply by
>having one tablespace consisting of several datafiles.
>
>Does anybody know about how oracle (9i, Linux) actually allocates space
>across the different datafiles?
>Is one table always in one file or is the granularity the extent?
>
>Lots of Thanks!
>Volker

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