RE: LinuxFS for Oracle

Oracle works on ReiserFS as well as on Ext2. My personal preference was ReiserFS because of the abominable fsck times with my big disks (32GB & 20GB). I don't see much overhead. With UDMA3/66 enabled, my disks are performing
extremely well. Having 384 MB RAM also helps a bit. On the other hand, I am a DBA and I only have oracle database to test & explore cool new features, i.e.
I don't do any real work (which is a streak shared by all DBAs). If you put a real database with real users on such a box, please let me know how is it going.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Buchan [mailto:wbuchan_at_uk.intasys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: LinuxFS for Oracle
>
>
>
> I am about to attempt an Oracle installation on SuSE Linux
> 7.2. I need to
> pick a file-system: ext2 or reiserfs.
> Does anyone have any comments to share?
>
> All I can see from the docs is:
> "Oracle8i Server must be able to verify that file writes have
> been made to
> disk. File
> systems that do not support this verification are not
> supported for use
> with Oracle
> databases, although Oracle software can be installed on them."
>
> My knowledge of how the 2 filesystems is 0. I'd be very
> grateful for any
> advice and/or interpretation.
>
> Thanks
> - Bill.
>
>
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