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"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote...
> And just as a peanut-sized text file written in notepad nevertheless has
> to be stored in a complete file system block (or cluster), with
> attendant issues of 'slack space' on your hard disk, so LGWR has to fill
> a complete file system/redo log block even if the amount of redo being
> flushed is tiny. Generally, file systems use 512 byte blocks, so the
> smallest update will have to occupy 512 bytes of redo log space.
So I guess that means there can be a lot of "redo entries" inside a "redo block" doesn't it ? Received on Mon May 03 2004 - 02:21:09 CDT