AIX OS Block size

From: Nguyen, Joseph (JNguyen@WM.COM)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 15:59:00 EDT

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It is my understand that AIX read/write I/O blocksize is 4K. Let's say
Oracle I/O blocksize is 8k. Is it meant that the OS would do two I/O for
every Oracle I/O request?

Joseph

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