Or you may not want to try XFS.

From:
www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/htdocs/oracleonlinux_faq.html

What filesystems are supported for Oracle on Linux?

Supported filesystems include Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), ext3 (with O_SYNC), NFS, OCFS, ReiserFS, and raw. XFS is not supported.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Didier Boiteux [mailto:dboiteux@(protected)]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:15 AM
> To: suse-oracle@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] SLES 9 SP3 + Oracle 9.2.0.6 + SATA = data block
> corruption
>
> Radovan,
>
> You may want to test on XFS, which is recommended to use with large files.
> One known drawback is that a file system check will be very heavy on
> memory.
>
> Cf
> http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/File_System_Primer#File_System_Comparison
>
> -+-
> Didier
>
> On Thursday 26 October 2006 08:35, Radovan Bičiště wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Digging deeper it seems like an issue with ReiserFS and SATA. This is a
> > test system so no RAID.
> > I have same two disks in the machine and I tried to test to run database
> > from both disks and symptoms are the same. I ran disk diagnostics from
> > floppy with zero errors.
> > Seems like ReiserFS does not like big files. I'm testing with ext3 now.
> > Radek
> >
> > Ronny Egner píše v Čt 26. 10. 2006 v 07:51 +0200:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we are running 9.2.0.6.0 release without any corrupt blocks.
> > > By the way: I dont think the release is some kind of broken.
> > >
> > > I would check your hard disks. Perhaps you are running RAID1 or
> > > RAID10 and one mirror disk broke some blocks when writing ??
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