Re: disk partition question

Also not an answer to your question, but RAID5 and RDBMSs generally go together like chalk and cheese. Your write performance will suffer as compared to a non-RAID5 implementation, which may or may not be acceptable and may or may not be noticeable.

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HJR "Robert P. McGraw, Jr." <robert_mcgraw_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3AF02247.A3A63B34_at_yahoo.com...
> I am NOT an Oracle DBA but have been asked to install oracle 8.1.5 or a
> Sun Solaris 4500 and a A1000 Disk Array. Another real DBA will do the
> actually creation of the data base.
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> I have made 1 big RAID 5 disk on the A1000 for the data bases.
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> I have been told that I should use format to create the /u01
> /u02..../u06 partions for the DB. My questions is why or why not make
> directories like /export/oracle/u01....export/oracle/u06 and then link
> these to /u01 /u02.../u06. It seems that having on big LUN and having
> the links give more room for the db to expand. If I had individual
> partitions then I am limited to the space in each partition.
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> Can someone explain the pros or cons of both ways.
>
> Thanks
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> Robert
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Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 18:09:16 CDT