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Re: [suse-oracle] File System

Fabrizio Magni

2006-11-23

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Black, Alain wrote:
> 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.
>

Maybe, even for the present condition of Hans Reiser, Suse isn't
committed on reiserfs anymore.
http://news.com.com/Novell+makes+file-storage+software+shift/2100-1016_3-6125509.html

Ext3 is always been my file system of choice for oracle production
system but I really hope to see reiserfs around for years (even the
version 4).
Competition is the best thing to improve a product!

Fabrizio

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