Re: Linux filesystems & oracle performance

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:35:33 +1000
Message-ID: <3f6add0d$1$13416$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

"Brian Peasland" <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:3F69C5F3.707C360C_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> I'm assuming that Nuno was talking about the Linux Maximus paper.
>

Yup, very much so.

> That is good information to note as we are preparing down the road to
> Oracle on Linux. I bet you are right that the paper just used the
> default block sizes. It would be very easy for the author to set both
> file systems to use the same block size and repeat the benchmarks.

Dunno. What I do now is to check the man pages for EVERY f/s in EVERY Linux version. There are some minor differences between them and it is important to become fully conversant with whatever one is gonna be using before the formats start.

As my wife always says: "after moving in is not the time to lift the carpets and polish the floor boards. We do that BEFORE."

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Cheers
Nuno Souto
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Received on Fri Sep 19 2003 - 05:35:33 CDT