Wolfgang Breitling wrote:
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> I believe that if scattered, i.e. multi-block, reads are faster than
> sequential, i.e. single-block, reads it is because the SAN recognized
> a read pattern and prefetched the next bunch of block into the cache.
Now, that would only be possible if your SAN apparatus is more
intelligent then Geraldo Rivera. Not that it's very hard,
but the only type of SAN device that can recognize patterns is EMC
Symmetrix (the very top of the line) and they are
prohibitively expensive.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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Received on Thu Jun 16 2005 - 14:09:55 CDT
