Re: Exotic Blocksize 6144 Byte

bdbafh_at_gmail.com wrote:
> I hope that the oracle files (redo, control, data, temp) were on raw
> volumes.
> I don't believe that w2k3 supports a filesystem block size of 6144
> bytes.
>
> -bdbafh
>

NTFS use a 512 byte block size exactly as a raw device so 6144 is a multiple of the filesystem blocksize (12 fs blocks for every oracle one).

I wouldn't use such a block size (a wouldn't use windows at all) but it should be possible to work with such a "weird" value.

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Fabrizio Magni

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