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тАО02-02-2010 07:58 AM
тАО02-02-2010 07:58 AM
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тАО02-02-2010 08:07 AM
тАО02-02-2010 08:07 AM
SolutionTo change this you would need to back up your data, rebuild the logical volumes and file systems and then restore the data.
Don't bother, a number of people have actually tested this concept out and not gotten a significant boost in oracle performance.
Proper tuning of kernel parameters, system patching and management of the Oracle SGA settings all have far more impact on performance than block size on the file system.
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тАО02-02-2010 08:10 AM
тАО02-02-2010 08:10 AM
Re: filesystem block size
The block size ('bsize') is set at creation time and can't be changed thereafter.
The block size for files on the file system represents the smallest amount of disk space allocated to a file. The values are powers of 2 and range from 1024-8192 bytes with an appropriate default being chosen based on the size of the filesystem at creation. See the 'mkfs_vxfs' manpages for more information.
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тАО02-02-2010 01:00 PM
тАО02-02-2010 01:00 PM
Re: filesystem block size
Years ago (probably more than 15), Oracle recommended this for 'performance' in a blanket statement for all flavors of Unix. Unfortunately, this statement still persists even though it has no relevance with current VxFS filesystems (and very little effect for HFS).
The biggest change in performance for Oracle is to look at the DB design and the queries. Reducing disk I/O in Oracle is many times more effective than fiddling with filesystems, striping, cache sizes, etc.
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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тАО02-02-2010 01:06 PM
тАО02-02-2010 01:06 PM
Re: filesystem block size
>>wether I can change the block size of a file system once created.
As said above you need to take backup and rebuild the same.....
Wether it needs down time ?
down time for what server?
if its about server then no. for file system then you need to distroy the vg and recreate it again...
Suraj
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тАО02-02-2010 06:25 PM
тАО02-02-2010 06:25 PM
Re: filesystem block size
you need use "newfs" command to specfiy your bloack size once you have create file system using lvcreate" than follow has below
newfs -F vxfs -b 8192 -o largefiles /dev/
>>>>Wether it needs down time ?<<<
if its new file system creation - NO downtime required
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тАО02-02-2010 06:27 PM
тАО02-02-2010 06:27 PM
Re: filesystem block size
As per the attachment , Yes