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Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1 and RAID5: Problem with creation of datafiles

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:50:17 +0200
Message-ID: <dgs9i7$l9l$1@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Volker wrote:
> When installing under RAID 5 we encountered a problem. As soon as we
> start creating the datafiles for our tablespaces (the datafiles are >
> 1GB) the server is not responding any more (Oracle software is already
> installed, there is other productive software running on the machine).
> We had to abort installation and REBOOT the server! (we ended up
> installing on another server)
>
> The other oracle-database (not from us) on this machine has datafiles
> with a maximum size of 500MB - it seems, that they have split up the
> datafiles for one tablespace to several datafiles with 500MB size.
>
> So is filesize really a problem under RAID5? We have no experience with
> RAID5 and don't have a test system with RAID5 where we can test things
> out.
>
> Does someone know the reason for this behaviour? (i googled for this
> problem but did not find any clue)
>
> Thanks
>
> Volker
>

Just be patient!

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Wed Sep 21 2005 - 13:50:17 CDT

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