Martin Klier wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
>
>
>>I am trying to set up Oracle10g on a SLES9. Installation went OK on a
>>REISERFS partition.
>
>
>>What filesystem would you suggest ?
>
>
>>As I sait, currently, we are using reiserfs, but performance is
>>abismally bad: even a basic P IV pc with a IDE disk performs much better...
>
>
> I'd suggest ext3 for rdbms installation, and a non-journaling FS for the data
> files. Journaling isn't desired for oracle data files, since oracle's cache
> handling was made for working on its own.
>
> Why ext3? I never lost a ext3 FS, but I lost more than one ReiserFS without
> knowing why two years ago.

Ack


> Why ext2? Simple, supported, working over years.

How do you handle system crashes on a > 500 GB filesystem ?
You do *not* want to perform an fsck on a large filesystem....


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