A storage infrastructure perspective on optimizing business applications
March 28, 2013 5 Comments
My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.
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February 22, 2011 27 Comments
As you might know, if disk partitions containing Oracle datafiles are not aligned with the underlying storage system, then some I/O’s can suffer from some overhead as they are effectively translated in two I/O’s.
If you want more info, google for “EMC disk alignment” and you’ll find plenty of information, explaining the issue.
Update 28-03-2013: I wrote a follow-up for this post describing the same thing for Linux (Red Hat / CentOS / OEL) versions 6. For that, you might want to jump straight to the new post as this one gets a bit outdated ;-)
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