I haven't considered FAT, but XFS and JFS were both serious candidates.
I opted for JFS, after I asked the question on both IBM support pages
and SGI support pages. I've never received answer from SGI about direct I/O
on XFS, but I'm entertaining the thought of trying it out. I was under the
impression that SGI's backing of XFS for Linux is just casual, marketing
level support, while IBM's is rather serious, with good developers and
decent support. Not receiving an answer to email in which I ask for assistance
is rather serious thing and I disqualified SGI entirely from any future
recommendations or even considerations. If they're not capable of responding
to the question whether they support direct I/O, how can I expect them to
tell me about the bugs they have? IBM just looks better. As for FAT, I've
never considered it a serious candidate. It's 20 years old FS being
abandoned even by the original peddler in favor of NTFS. Let me borrow
the favorite dietary mantra from daytime TV: FAT is bad.
On 02/26/2004 10:26:49 AM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> I haven't yet, but I'm getting the feeling that ext3 is not preferred. If
> not, then what? I've already had ext2 trash my entire "/", even though I
> was doing a mke2fs on a separate RAID MP, so that's not an option.
>
> JFS? XFS? FAT? WHY one over the other?
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:15 AM
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: Re: Moving db to linux
> >
> >
> > And, in case you hit one of the infamous ext3 corruption
> > bugs, you can
> > test the RMAN performance, as well.
> > On 02/26/2004 09:39:00 AM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > > ext3 does direct I/O? What's the mount option and where's
> > it documented?
> > > I've been using "noatime" to get a little better performance on DB
> > > mountpoints, but that's about it.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Rich
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