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Oracle Database implementation on UNIX servers

 
MINGAM
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Oracle Database implementation on UNIX servers

When you create Oracle 8.0.5 Database ( whith size bigger than 200 Go), Is there a rule to apply for better performance between LVM, VXFS block size under HP-UX 11 and ORACLE block size.
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Andreas Voss
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Re: Oracle Database implementation on UNIX servers

Hi,

i think it's recommended that the block size of Oracle should be the same as the block size of the filesystem.
We use 8192.
To set this at creation time for the filesystem we used:
newfs -F vxfs -b 8192 /dev/vgXX/lvolXX

Regards

Andrew
Brian M. Fisher
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Re: Oracle Database implementation on UNIX servers

Andrew is correct, Oracle recommends the block sizes be the same.

Brian
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