This is the first time (I think) I've heard of performance degradation due to filesystem block size not matching. Is there some guidance (whitepapers etc) on this? I should probably buff up on some of that *if* there is a large penalty involved. Thanks, Chris On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/10/2013 3:00 AM, Rich Jesse wrote: > > What does destroy the performance is to use a file system block size > larger than the db block size. > No danger of that with JFS2 and db_block_size=8K! :) > > But a clear danger of that, if using std redos (512) and a default file > system blocksize of 4K, > as the other poster pointed out. That's when one has to match things. > One way or the other. > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l