Re: Moving db to linux

From: Tanel Põder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:19:48 +0200
Message-ID: <21e101c3fc1f$c5b31720$73f823d5@porgand>

> Oracle supports Ext2 and OCFS, not Ext3. Ext3 has occasional problems
> with corruption. As for OCFS, I'll give it a second look it on Saturday,

Mladen, Oracle doesn't certify file systems individually. Oracle certifies operating systems, so any file system that runs on standard RHAS will be certified.

> be capable of linking it into my 2.4.25 kernel. As for async I/O, that is
not
> a problem. I can always start a bunch of database writers instead of just
> one. The problem with direct I/O is that without it, Linux is going to

Asynch IO can also help with read operations and LGWR etc.. I think that generally multiple db writers isn't as good solution as (kernelized) asynch IO with 1-2 db writers.

Tanel.

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