Re: raw logical volumes and oracle

Hi, Daniel!

Daniel Tisserand wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience using raaw logical volumes with oracle or
> any reason not to use raw volumes in an HPUX environment? Is there a
> problem spanning multiple drives with a raw logical volume and putting a
> tablespace on it?

We use raw devices on NCR UNIX. I'm not a UNIX guru, but from Oracle point of view
it works much faster. There are two drawbacks: NCR doesn't support a raw device
bigger than 2 GB, and it's not very flexible. And use it only for tablespace,

do not place arch log files on raw devices.

Peter. Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 19:48:24 CST