> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herman.Maseberg@(protected)
> [mailto:Herman.Maseberg@(protected)]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:38 AM
> To: Maxim Tkachenko
> Cc: suse-oracle@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] File System
>
> Maxim Tkachenko <tma@(protected).:
>
> > What file system is better for using with Oracle?(not OCFS)
> >
> Warning, this kind of answers causes flame's war :)
>
> I use ext3 in my production systems, is stable and have good performance
> mounted with data=writeback.
> The problem with ext3 is not support of online resizing as reiserfs and
> you
> have to set some parameters to avoid fsck after 30 times or 180 days, you
> have to execute tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/sdaXXX to avoid this.
> I use to use reiserfs but the version in SLES 9 is 3 and there are some
> doubts with the future, online resizing feature of reiserfs is amazing.
> With jfs I have some issues when a fs is full and change to ext3.
> I never use XFS but always read good comments with it.
>


Oracle is officially dropping support of ReiserFS when SUSE does stating the reason being that the file system is now just in maintenance mode. It's what I use on my current systems. It's on their OSS page which may have to be read out of a search engine cache as Oracle replaced a technical information page with an add for their current linux initiative.

Ext3 is what I'm using for the two boxes that I'm doing some testing on, though when the PROD boxes get in we'll probably use OCFS2 in preparation for RAC.

The best advise I could give would be to take a few of the more popular ones and run some of your own tests. Our environments are different than yours, we don't have your data.

-Alain.

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