Re: How Oracle datafiles are allocated physically on disk

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:23:35 +0200
Message-ID: <trh7fth40l12fb@news.demon.nl>

"CatherineE" <catherine.ewington_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message news:86763436.0110010734.23b6992f_at_posting.google.com...
> Can someone please tell me how an Oracle datafile is allocated on a
> disk attatched to a HP unix Server? Assuming a newly formatted disk
> that is not used by anything. If I create a subdirectory
> /disk1/oradata/LIVE and then create a datafile of 2G. How contiguous
> can this be? What are the variations of how the datafile is allocated
> on disk?
>
> Thanks.

Oracle just uses ordinary Unix calls to create the file. This is a 100% O/S issue.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA Received on Mon Oct 01 2001 - 11:23:35 CDT