Re: XFS vs Ext4 file system

From: Uwe Küchler <uwe_at_kuechler.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:24:27 +0100
Message-ID: <d3fbee7469cf6d30d686b02b70ea4b09_at_kuechler.org>


Hi Jeffrey,
it depends on your Linux version, Oracle DB version and hardware platform, if you ask Oracle.

Oracle MOS is a bit contradictory in that case. Quoting Doc ID 2197176.1:

   "Oracle Database is supported on ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems (see Note:236826.1 for further information)"

And Doc ID 2196637.1 (Linux on System z):

   "Oracle Database is supported on ext2, ext3, ext4 and xfs file systems"

FWIW, on RHEL or OL7 I still stick to Ext4 after having trouble with sluggish performance having DB files on xfs (using direct i/o).

Cheers,
Uwe

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On 15.12.2017 16:16, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote:

> We are migrating our databases from Windows to Linux. Is there a
> recommended choice of file systems between Ext 4 and XFS?
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