> Of course, the Sun engineer is saying "our new RAID 5 is just as fast as > RAID 10 because we stripe parity across all disks".
Uh huh. Does he think this is new? RAID 3 is the version that has a dedicated parity disk IIRC. RAID 5 has always striped the parity across all disks. Jared On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:24, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: > To whomever posted the link to Gaja's paper Implementing RAID on Oracle - > thank you. I previously had printed and passed this article on to my system > administrator -- no reaction. But yesterday he was building our new Sun > system with all the latest features, and was so excited about the paper that > he asked for a second copy to share with his junior sys admin. He stopped > building the system to take a day to study Gaja's paper in detail. > Of course, the Sun engineer is saying "our new RAID 5 is just as fast as > RAID 10 because we stripe parity across all disks". > Since this will be an OLTP system, I am planning on an 8K Oracle block > size, unless anyone has better information on how to pick a block size. > Apparently there are a lot of storage system parameters you can optimize, > but they are based on the Oracle block size. > > > > Dennis Williams > DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
