Re: ext3 vs ext2 on linux

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:53:42 GMT
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"NetComrade" <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net> wrote in message news:8dng1258cpsio0h3ukvscdmir67127ts78_at_4ax.com...
> Our production is running on vxfs/odm, and we are very happy with it.
>
> We are building a 'test' box, which will run on linux file systems
>
> I understand you don't want to run ext3 in journaling mode for oracle
> datafiles/redo..
>
> Do you want to do it at least for control/binaries?
>
> Also, what about system crashes.. we are looking at 2TB+ file system
>
> The oracle paper out there, doesn't actually show much of a
> difference:
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/pdf/Linux-FS-Performance-Comparison.pdf
>
> We will be running 9i.
>
> Thanks.
> .......
> We run Oracle 9.2.0.6 on RH4 AMD
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I don't see any reason not to use ext3. The performance is similar to that of ext2, database or not. Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 20:53:42 CST