From: Roberto Fichera <kernel@tekno-soft.it>
To: Jakob Østergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext2 & Performances
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:16:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001121190033.00d23bc0@mail.tekno-soft.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001121190023.R4635@unthought.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001121174403.00d3e450@mail.tekno-soft.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20001121174403.00d3e450@mail.tekno-soft.it>
At 19.00 21/11/00 +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:58:58PM +0100, Roberto Fichera wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I need to know if there are some differences, in performances, between
> > a ext2 filesystem in a 10Gb partition and another that reside in a 130Gb,
> > each one have 4Kb block size.
> >
> > I'm configuring a Compaq ML350 2x800PIII, 1Gb RAM, 5x36Gb UWS3 RAID 5
> > with Smart Array 4300, as database SQL server. So I need to chose
> between a
> > single
> > partition of 130Gb or multiple small partitions, depending by the
> performances.
>
>Does your database *require* a filesystem ? At least Oracle can do without,
>but I don't know about others...
Currently I'm using PostgreSQL.
>Usually, if you want performance, you let the database use the block device
>without putting a filesystem on top of it.
Yes! I know! Oracle should be a good choice for that.
>You probably don't want a 130G ext2 if there is any chance that a power
>surge etc. can cause the machine to reboot without umount()'ing the
>filesystem. A fsck on a 130G filesystem is going to take a *long* time.
Yes! I know :-((!!! I'm looking for other fs that are journaled like ext3
or raiserfs
but I don't know which are a good choice for stability and performances.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-21 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-21 16:58 Roberto Fichera
2000-11-21 18:00 ` Jakob Østergaard
2000-11-21 18:16 ` Roberto Fichera [this message]
2000-11-21 18:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-21 18:36 ` Aaron Sethman
2000-11-22 5:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
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