Strip size recomendations for RAID5

From: Edward Shevtsov <ed_at_mb.ru>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:52:29 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003BA193.20011101003018@fatcity.com>

Hi List,

I'm looking for recomendations, best practice, etc about setting strip size for RAID5 arrays.
We have a hybrid system (mainly OLTP) with prevelant reads operations and have limited number of
disks.
My question is should I merely setup the stip size equal to Oracle block size or should I set it
larger considering size of maxphys. I/O operation for certain OS? I've read some articles and
haven't found clear recommendations yet.

We are on 8.1.7, Linux

Thank you for your help.
Ed

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