Return-Path: Delivered-To: 2-oracle-l@orafaq.com Received: (qmail 20508 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2006 09:36:37 -0500 Received: from freelists-180.iquest.net (HELO turing.freelists.org) (206.53.239.180) by 69.64.49.119 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2006 09:36:37 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 423E334E03A; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01151-10; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id BD02634DD79; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:35:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 831A734DEFE for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:35:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00843-08 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:35:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 12B1834DF6B for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so1648531ugd for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:35:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=OVgmpTqKV7b7g1vZzu7Bvs13umtD1fMv68tfv34zR25GP2qjpOzND4y6tDZwZWIjOkQNUPN9jbO1BNaAOx8ZXWdqAW0xhDoIprhvefVSv7lskAm8nCUAlGMZFxxx71Emv9h+adWy7gRGB3VsceQfzMaGs07rmmKrnykmgl7KzM4= Received: by 10.66.216.20 with SMTP id o20mr4565752ugg; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MPILA9 ( [194.185.248.130]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q40sm7648011ugc.2006.06.06.07.35.49; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <04a201c68976$84d585d0$1a03310a@MPILA9> From: "Radoulov, Dimitre" To: References: <6.2.1.2.0.20060606220347.01fd7eb0@pop.singnet.com.sg> Subject: Re: High disk capacity dangers Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:35:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-archive-position: 35639 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-to: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: cichomitiko@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-to: cichomitiko@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at avenirtech.net > Even if this theory was correct for regular files, it would have been > invalid > for Oracle DataFiles which are *precreated* (ie all disk blocks are > preallocated Yes for datafiles, no for tempfiles, they are sparse. Regards Dimitre -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l