RE: inode density for Oracle filesystems

Bill,

This is Ok as long as you create *only* Datafiles/redologs (i.e. static number of file objects) in that filesystem. I have done this without problems, albeit on AIX boxes.

John Kanagaraj
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Buchan [mailto:wbuchan_at_uk.intasys.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:51 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: inode density for Oracle filesystems
>
>
>
>
> Is there any real benefit in using sparse inodes on a
> filesystem for Oracle
> datafiles?
>
> We originally had a system with few inodes because there
> would only be a
> few, large Oracle datafiles. However this has also rendered
> the free space
> left useless as a handy place to put a load of very static file
> archives. I'm tempted to rebuild the filesystem with more inodes.
>
> Any reason why not? (This is UFS on Solaris)
>
> Thanks for any info
> - Bill
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