On Thursday 06 April 2006 09:56, Martin Klier wrote:
> ... 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.

Perhaps restating points already made:

- ext3/Reiser/etc. are *not* journalling file systems, despite the practice of
calling them that. They are journalling *directory* systems. They protect
your directory entries. They do /not/ protect the /contents/ of your files.
(Guess we could call it a journalling file-hyphen-system?)

- Oracle *is* a journalling file system. It tracks changes /within/ a file
space, changes to the /contents/ of the files. It relies on the operating
system for the integrity of the directory entries pointing to its files.
(Making this a journalling-hyphen-file system??)

They complement each other.

HTH ... BJ

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