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GFS, OCFS, and GPFS - Which Filesystem for Oracle?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the proper-care-and-feeding-of-a-high-octane-RDBMS dept.

amani asks: "My company has a Oracle 9i RAC database running on a Sun cluster. In 6 months we are looking to replace the cluster with either a Linux or an AIX solution that will involve SAN storage. I see that their are a variety of filesystems for Oracle and Linux. Sistina (Red Hat) has the GFS, Oracle has the OCFS, and IBM has GPFS. Does anyone know the pros and cons of each of these filesystems ,and which one would be better for a continuously growing database?"

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  1. Parting with Sentiment by fm6 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If you have lots more updates than accesses, you need your redo logs etc on RAW devices, no filesystem required, these will be your biggest bottleneck.
    OK, but that sort of begs the question. One of the filesystems mentioned OCFS, is specifically designed to use in place of a raw partition. So when is a raw partition preferred and when OCFS?

    Despite all the wisecracks about the name, our sentimental favorite should be GPFS because of a certain well known geek who works for the filesystem group at IBM Almaden.