Re: RAID on Hotspots....

Comments in-line.

rich wrote:

> All,
>
> It seams that in the Oracle on Linux shop i/o doesn't follow
> tradition.

If by tradition you mean mythology no one should be following it with any version of Oracle for any reason whatsoever. It was pure nonsense perpetuated and distributed by publishers, alas including Oracle.

   It used to be that you always separated things physicaly
> on different controllers, different disk, etc... Today it's just one
> big RAID array and everything goes on it.

Separating control files and log files still has some value. But separating everything else was always nonsense.

   How many of you have 10 EMC
> arrays?

I have 4 NetApps. Does that count?

   I'll bet not many, if any. How are you separating data from
> index, redo logs from arhived redo logs, temp from undo?

As you can clearly see above ... we don't and you shouldn't. Except as noted for control files and redo logs.

> Please send your solutions to rheadrick_at_tickleinc.com
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich

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