Neither Kevin, just a good old fashion EXT3 linux. I am interested in the internal "book keeping". I have huge performance problems during my tests with XMLType Binary XML Securefile storage and/or with "COMPRESS HIGH" and I want to figure out if it is problem related to the "BIGFILE" / "SMALLFILE" Cheers Marco ________________________________ From: Kevin Closson [mailto:ora_kclosson@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: woensdag 16 juli 2008 20:50 To: Marco Gralike; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Performance BIGFILE contra SMALLFILE tablespaces Raw partition or CFS? ----- Original Message ---- From: Marco Gralike <Marco.Gralike@xxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:32:32 AM Subject: Performance BIGFILE contra SMALLFILE tablespaces Has anyone any idea if there is a difference in performance between BIGFILE / SMALLFILE tablespaces on a normal harddisk (so no ASM etc) Thanks in advance Marco