Hi, Did anybody struggled with RMAN restore doing datafile writes in small 128K chunks ? 128K is RMAN buffer size which is clearly a torment of underlying storage. Metallink note 1072545.1. describes various parameters like _backup_ksfq_bufsz and _db_file_direct_io_count but I haven't got a chance to test them. Brgds, Laimis N -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l