Do you recommend striping ?

We have been using Oracle for a long time, but have always done explicit placement of datafiles across the available disks. Our configuration is (we believe) optimal at first, but after a year of production work, we get a lot of fragmentation, some extents, etc. We've tried RAID-5, but found it too slow.

With AIX 4.2, we have the chance to do disk striping at the Logical Volume Manager level, making it very easy. My theory is that over time striping will average out the accesses across the disks.

What are your opinions? Does everyone stripe? TIA Received on Sat Apr 26 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT