Re: Head cover, core 3

Thanks for the posting. Good news.

I need to check if FC3 includes LVM and the SELINUX security stuff. Off to play...

Regards,

Mike

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:26:46 -0500, Gogala, Mladen <mladen.gogala_at_aetn.com> wrote:
> Last night I decided that it is time to install FC3 on my system and remove
> the aging RH-9.
> First, the "upgrade" option doesn't work. I had to allow the installer to
> run "mkfs". Fortunately for me,
> I have backups, so no problems there. I had oracle 10.1.0.3.0 installed on
> RH-9 and I was able to
> start it right away. Even more, FC3 has async I/O and direct I/O built in
> the kernel and I was
> able to set filesystemio_options to "setall" and it worked like a charm. It
> was a real deal, not just
> the lack of complaint, because I did strace and I monitored FS buffers, the
> numbers in use wasn't growing
> as I was doing selects. Now,I only have to resolve an issue with NVIDIA
> drivers. FC3 looks very, very good.
> The FS that I use for database is JFS. The database looks and feels faster
> on FC3 then it ever looked
> on an ancient RH-9
>
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