José Valerio Oracle Technology

Oracle Database File System (DBFS) is a shared file system like NFS and consists of a server (Oracle Database) and a client (dbfs_client in Linux or internal database client). The dbfs_client provides a command interface to allow files to be easily copied in and out of the database from any host on the network. On ...

This utility was introduced in Oracle 11.1, it is an excellent tool to understand if your actual workload is overloading your disks or file systems. I/O is very important  in an Oracle database so I really recommend to all DBAs the use of this great utility to  know the actual capacity of your hardware. Below ...