Ralph Graulich wrote: >Hi, > >just my two cents worth: I like having the files sized in a way I can >handle them easily with any UNIX tool on nearly any system. No matter >wether I want to cp, tar, dump, dd, cat or gzip the file: Just keep it at >a maximum size below any limits, handy for handling. > Good point... however I was thinking that being able to dump the entire database without resporting to "gzips and splits" was handy...
> >For example, Oracle suggests it somewhere in their documentation, to keep >datafiles at a reasonable size, e.g. 1 GB. Seems right to me, never had >any problems with it. > Yep, fixed or controlled sizes for data files is great... I was thinking about databases rather than data files (altho I may not have made that clear in my mail) best wishes Mark ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
