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.
>
>
I read it in a book I purchased sometime ago (that I just got around to
reading) about oracle and open source, its in the "oracle tuning on
linux" section. I believe the book is by O'Reilly (its at home)
hth
Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 15:02:10 CDT
