* Örn Hansen
On Thursday 09 October 2003 02:10, Kastus wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:21:58PM -0400, Buck wrote:
What are the advantages of using Reiser vs Ext3.
This topic was discussed recently on suse-oracle mailing list: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-oracle/2003-Sep/0212.html
and according to benchmarks in http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/techarticles/scalzo_linux02.ht ml oracle DB runs more than two times faster on ext3 than on reiserfs.
Oracle, is not made of many small files ... for such use, something Like XFS, or JFS would be appropriate.
Ext3 is a journal add-on, to Ext2 and backwards compatible as far as I can understand. It's based on the legacy unix file system, which is really out of date.
Well, I wouldnt call it really out of date ... And it is pretty much rock solid ... It's been around longer then Reiserfs, and has been in much more use then reiser, which menas that any bugs have a higher likely hood of being already found (and fixed) on ext3 then on reiserfs. Having said all that, Reiser4 promises to deliver a whole lot ... but I guess Ill have to wiat for SuSE 9.2 w/ 2.6.8 kernel before it's solid enough for my machine (let alone for production machines ;) ) Currently listening to: pj1994-03-29d2t03 Gerhard, (faliquid@xs4all.nl) == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __0 Howling the pack in formation appears =`\<, diamonds and clubs, light misted fog, the dead (=)/(=) waving us back in formation, the pack in formation bowling they bat as a group and the leader is seen - so early...