I'm convinced. And willing to learn. And -rereading the thread in Unix modeit
makes more sense. Or the opposite <grin>
Will go for 8k on Unix as from now on. Cooked, that is.
BTW, I come across many (well...) sysops that are _very_ reluctant to
start off with raw fs. Cannot convince them always.
Any war stories on terrible performing dbms's on cooked fs, that flash on
raw?
--
Frank
Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
39ec3a53_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
> "frank" <fbortel_at_home.nl> wrote in message
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> > Comment inline
> >
> > "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > > Comments below
> > > HJR
> > > --
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Opinions expressed are my own, and not those of Oracle Corporation
> > > Oracle DBA Resources:
http://www.geocities.com/howardjr2000
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > <snip>
> > > That's got to be one of the most sensible postings of the subject I've
seen
> > > for weeks. All of it makes sense with (forgive me) the one exception
of
> > > rather avoiding the discussion about block size. I keep seeing total
cr*p
> > > posted here about the "fact" that block size would seem to depend on
what
> > > you use the database for: OLTP allegedly requires a small block size,
and
> > > data warehousing doesn't.
> >
> > Maybe you could tell Oracle to alter the documentation, then? You're
closer
> > than me ;-)
> >
>
> Have you read the documentation for the Backup and Recovery course??? The
> DBA course is bad enough, but the BUR one is worse. And no, complaining
> about it doesn't make a bit of difference. So whatever the documentation
> says, talk to the experts, and Steve Adams knows what he's talking about
it
> (as far as I'm concerned, anyway).
>
> And he says 8K is a given for most Unixes with file systems, for reasons
> that make entire good sense as far as I can work out.
>
> So take it up with him.
>
> Personally, I reckon this subject arouses so much debate because there are
> so many DBAs out there who made the wrong decision, and don't like to
admit
> it. Probably too much effort to fix the balls-up.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
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Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 08:49:35 CDT
