Re: Linux filesystems & oracle performance

Tanel,

Read the article on the link that I posted. It talks about EXT2, EXT3 and REISERF file systems, plus others. I do think that one has to take the findings with a grain of salt since they are benchmarks, but the information can prove useful for you.

HTH,
Brian

Tanel Poder wrote:
>
> > set up with with ext2 filesystems, but I recently read that oracle
> > performance on linux can be enhanced by using the ext3 or reiser
> > filesystems.
>
> Hi,
> where did you read that?
> I'd be interested in the article, because my understanding is that ext3
> (which is basically ext2+journalling) only helps in case of server crash,
> that during bootup you don't have to make a full file system check. I
> understand that this actually doen't make anything go faster or IO to take
> less. And reiserf is AFAIK most effective when dealing with huge number of
> files (such often are webservers), since it has a tree like inode structure.
>
> Tanel.

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