[NTLUG:Discuss] lv striping

[Ed Coates]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

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> 
> Ed,
> 
> Oracle recommends a 1024k stripesize scheme on a lv for data access speed
> optimization.  Their documentation wasn't Redhat specific.
> 
> It's not like I have a lot of drives to stripe across, so I am not certain
> how much difference it would make anyway.  Looks like 512k stripe will do
> just fine... :>
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Monty
Monty,

We regularly use 128k striping for our Oracle and Informix databases at 
work using HP-UX.  I think that 512k, or even less should do fine for you.

Ed