Raw Partitions and File Systems - Same Instance, OPS

I have been investigating creating raw partitions on our Sequent in addition to the existing file systems for the following reasons:

• Improved I/O performance
• Able to span physical drives thereby getting larger than our 2 GB max file system. This is needed to store the large volume of archive redo logs we generate.
• Have our system administrator learn how to manage raw partitions. (Maybe archive redos is not the best place to learn raw partitions...)
• Gain knowledge prior to potentially implementing Oracle Parallel Server.

Anyway...

• Can this mix of raw partitions and file systems be done?
• Are raw partitions really worth the headache?
• Do you absolutely have to have raw paritions in order to run Oracle Parallel Server?

Thanks...

Rick Ellison
DBA Received on Tue Dec 26 1995 - 00:00:00 CET