Aligning Oracle Blocks with Filesystem Block Size

  • From: amonte <ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:58:50 +0100

Hi

I have a 9i database running on HP-UX which uses 4k db_block_size. The
filesystem used is OnlineJFS (vxfs version 4).

The Filesystem block size is 8k (f_bsize 8192)

I was wondering what sort of impact can this missalignment cause? Would I/O
system perform twice I/O it should?

TIA

Alex

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