Re: Linux filesystems & oracle performance

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f69aaae$0$18592$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Tanel Poder" <change_to_my_first_name_at_integrid.info> wrote in message news:3f68b2a6$1_1_at_news.estpak.ee...
>
> > 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.
>
>
> ext3 uses a default block size for the f/s that
> is more appropriate for databases that are page (or block)
> based. Around 4K.
>
> Both ext2 (2K) and ext3 (4K) MAY have the default block size changed,
> but that is not mentioned in ANY of the articles mentioned.

Noons,

I thought the default filesystem block size for ext2 was 4k. How do you get the 2k number? Thanks.

Yong Huang Received on Fri Sep 19 2003 - 09:20:22 CDT