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Re: ZFS & Oracle

From: Ghassan Salem <salem.ghassan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:47:16 +0200
Message-ID: <411d50f60709241647t1332740fufd1ddc569d03c793@mail.gmail.com>


There are things on sun's website about zfs with DBs, it does not seem to be good at handling this type of I/O.

On 9/24/07, Joe Frohne <joe_at_frohne.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Have you or your admins had the time to figure out why it's performing
> poorly?
>
> There are some docs around, but not much yet.
>
> I think this all points towards it being something nice to look at in a
> development/test environment. We are really looking at it for the
> capability to do snapshots in hopes that we can move our test
> environment off of our EMC cabinet to drop the maintenance cost of that.
>
> Thank you to all who replied!
>
> Joe Frohne
>
> Connor McDonald wrote:
> > One of the servers here is running Oracle, and the sys admins (keen as
> they
> > are) thought "Gee, there's a cool idea...lets go ZFS"...at which point
> > performance has dropped through the floor.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
> > On Behalf Of Joe Frohne
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:08 PM
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: ZFS & Oracle
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I searched the archives for general ZFS information and found a few
> threads
> > about ZFS and snapshots. These threads are about a year old. I am
> > wondering if there is any general impression of running Oracle 10.2.xunder
> > ZFS today. Are people doing it successfully? What are the good, the
> bad
> > and the ugly of running Oracle under ZFS?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joe Frohne
> >
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