Not much of a Linux or Oracle expert, but with a good deal of experience
with VM: I generally recommend full-pack minidisks for such
applications. The additional overhead to VM is generally small and the
use of minidisks allows you considerable future flexibility such as
adding additional minidisks in less than full pack sizes. VM can indeed
do some minidisk caching but whether or not this would improve Oracle I
will leave to Oracle experts.
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Little, Chris
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:00 PM
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Subject: minidisk vs. dedicate
i'm creating an 11 physical volume vg for the datafiles of an oracle
database. i'm curious as to which would serve me better, full pack
minidisks or dedicate the volumes to the guest. one vm "expert"
recommended
dedicating the volumes to the guest, thereby bypassing any vm overhead.
at
the same time i understand that vm can do some minidisk caching. any
ideas?
