CIO & flash recovery area

Howdy list,  

Oracle support can't answer this question, so I'm turning to y'all. I'm setting up a new 10.2.0.2 database on AIX 5.3 and have set filesytemio_options=setall in order to enable CIO (concurrent I/O) on the datafiles, and I have mounted the filesystems for the redologs with cio and agblksize=512. All good there. My question is on how to configure the filesystem for the flash recovery area - should it also be mounted with cio and agblksize=512? I'm thinking cio would be good for this filesystem since the same blocks aren't likely to be accessed repeatedly, there is no point in keeping them in the filesystem buffer cache, right? Regarding the setting of agblksize, I think it depends on the I/O size Oracle uses to access the files in the flash recovery area (flashback database log, archived redo logs, datafile copies, etc.). I'm guessing that archive logs are written in 512 byte blocks just like the online redo, but I don't know if that's true or not. Do any of you know? Is anyone else running your flash recovery area on CIO - what have your experiences been?  

Thanks,
Brandon    

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