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Re: Getting the best out of new server hardware: a disk setup for Oracle database

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:15:56 GMT
Message-ID: <448EE4EB.6070700@sbcglobal.net>


Heikki Siltala wrote:

> Actually I'm a little bit worried about the robustness of ASM and
> ASMlib. Everything inside ASM is just 100110101000110's for OS and human
> eye. In a traditional setup if one datafile gets corrupted it is all we
> lose. With ASM a single bit error could mean that all data is lost.

Well, let me re-iterate then: what do you need ASM for?

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Mladen Gogala
http://www.mgogala.com
Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 11:15:56 CDT

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