Re: Filesystem Block Size ? 1K or 4K or 8K ?

  • From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:48:26 -0700

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> If you would, please share with us your reasons to avoid ASM. Based on your
> response, I'm guessing that the reasons might include "because that's the
> way I've always done it".
>


Personally, I don't use it as it adds more complexity to our environment.

We (by which I really me 'I') don't need to add any more complexity.

* Additional instance for ASM
* file management is simpler
* storage admins have easy direct access to see what's on disk.

I'm sure there are some rebuttals to this.

Let's hear 'em!


Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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