Ronny Egner wrote:

> 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....

  Quite so. Any condition that leads to the need to do
media recovery (even at the block level with RMAN) will
lead to a very bad day. I would stay away from the non
journaled filesystems for this reason.

  Just as a deskop user, it is nice not to have to do those
long ext2 fscks anymore. I have a 500G drive at home and
I would NOT want to fsck that baby under ext2.

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