Re: Oracle for NT - FAT or NTFS?
Date: 14 Mar 1995 16:34:24 GMT
Message-ID: <3k4gig$nrr_at_explorer.csc.com>
In <3jqm8d$2g7_at_explorer.csc.com>, spelegan_at_csc.com [Stew Pelegan] writes:
>I'm getting 3 Windows NT 3.5 machines in a couple of days and I've been asked
>to install Oracle 7 on one of them. For some reason, I think I read something
>somewhere that either Oracle or one of its optional products could only be
>installed on a FAT disk. Can anyone confirm or deny this very vague memory?
>Thanks.
>
I found it. It was in Oracle's WWW site. Here's a portion of it:
NTFS is a better file system than FAT for systems with a lot of small
files on them that are used frequently. An Oracle database, however,
consists of a small number of very large files. The performance of an
Oracle database on a FAT hard drive has been measured to be somewhat
better than the performance of the same database on an NTFS drive.
The Oracle database tools for Windows, such as the CDE tools, are not
supported on NTFS drives and should not be installed on them.
Also, Service Pack 3 contains a lot of fixes to Windows NT 3.1's file
system calls in general. It's worth getting and installing.
The entire document from which this was extracted can be found at:
http://www.oracle.com/support/oracleWorkNT/oracleWorkNT-tips.html
Stewart Pelegan
FAT might be better than NTFS
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