To be fair to SUN, my experience is that anytime *anyone* thinks "gee there's a cool idea lets go XXXX" performance drops through the floor. Sooner or later one gets it back again. I think I stopped suggesting new versions of Oracle for precisely this reason around about 9.0.1/9.0.3. :( Niall On 9/24/07, Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One of the servers here is running Oracle, and the sys admins (keen as > they > are) thought "Gee, there's a cool idea...lets go ZFS"...at which point > performance has dropped through the floor. > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Joe Frohne > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:08 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: ZFS & Oracle > > Hello, > > I searched the archives for general ZFS information and found a few > threads > about ZFS and snapshots. These threads are about a year old. I am > wondering if there is any general impression of running Oracle 10.2.xunder > ZFS today. Are people doing it successfully? What are the good, the bad > and the ugly of running Oracle under ZFS? > > Regards, > > Joe Frohne > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info