Re: Oracle Filesystem Usage

Martin Doherty wrote:

> Idle speculation from a not-very-techie: perhaps as the available space
> on the file system shrinks, the "quality" of the free space requested by
> Oracle and allocated by the OS goes down ... more fragmented. Analogy
> is picking up the crumbs that are left after all the loaves have been taken.
>
> Just a hypothesis, what do you think?
>
> Martin

I think most of our systems are either raw devices or striped and mirrored. Essentially fragmentation is irrelevant.

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