Re: Oracle and Sun ufs

Gerold Krommer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to install Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. We only have ufs. I'm
> thinking about raw devices versus file based Oracle, a topic beaten to
> death in this newsgroup and I'm well aware of the pros and cons.
>
> I'm just trying to gather if there is any comment to using an ufs filesystem
> with the -logging option , disk_asynch_io set to TRUE, and
> _filesystemio_options set to directIO.
>
> Thanks for any insight,
>
> /Gerold
> g.krommer_at_nospam.fns.co.at

simpler might just be to mount the file systems with the forcedirectio option

But from a personal opinion - I love raw - it makes you deploy a far more disciplined system

hth
connor

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