Re: type of striping

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 7 Dec 2004 15:59:50 -0800
Message-ID: <1102463990.322542.256840@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> For another, ASSM is in widespread use, and that makes the number of
> extents an issue again. Autoallocate minimises the number of extents.

> Poorly chosen uniform sizes will cause grief with ASSM.

That last sentence got me thinking, Howard. Trying to figure out why?

> Besides which... look at what 10g is doing with ASM, and you'll see
that
> the days of ever worrying about extents are (or should be) long, long
ago.

Thank Oracle for that! Whew! Received on Tue Dec 07 2004 - 17:59:50 CST