Size of physical datafiles ..URGENT!!!!!

Hi ,

ORacle popular wisdom suggests that in any unix environment if the size of the datafile goes beyond 1GB ,the performance drops down abruptly . Now generally the diskdrives in HP does not come below 2GB (at least). If I put in two datafiles there with 1GB , for all practical purposes it is just two logical data-files but phyisically it would look like one datafile with more than 1GB (in this case 2GB) size . Am i first of all correct in making the above assumption ????

What is the best way of getting around it .

I need a huge number of physical data mount points for the installation I am working on ...Any advice . I guess the RAID 5 level or RAID Array architecture would not do any good , am I right ?>?????

Please advise .....

Thanks Received on Mon Jul 14 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT