RE: Disk configuration

[Christopher Spence]

As that person if Santa exists.   The datafiles allocate their extents upon their creation, so a new insert will write within that space,   "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -----Original Message----- From: KC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Disk configuration Dear List,   Someone told me when a disk receive a write request, it write to the nearest free space on disk where the disk read/write head is currently positioning, is this information correct?? If this is true, is this a bad thing for database application?? That mean we can't really control where the file go, for performance purpose we may want to put certain files on the outer tracks of a disk, if the write location is depending on where the read/write head is, how can we avoid that, can we create subdisks from the outer track of a disk and create a logical volume from it??   KC