Hi Avi, On 5/11/2012 8:04 AM, Avi Miller wrote: > On 04/11/2012, at 2:33 PM, Andrew McGlashan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Insofar as Oracle is concerned with their own version of RHEL.... BTRFS >> is production ready, but they haven't certified their other main >> products to use it! > > This is half-true: Oracle supports btrfs if used in production, but the Linux > team is not responsible for product certification. So, you can happily store > Oracle binaries on btrfs (and I know a few customers that are now exploring > this), but you can't use btrfs to store Oracle Database data. And why would > you anyway, given so many better options, not least of which is Oracle ASM?
I wish it was 0% true... ;) > And, Oracle Database is one of the few Oracle products that actually > certifies filesystems for data storage. Where a product has no filesystem > certifications at all, e.g. the middleware stack, you can also use btrfs. I much prefer using standard files on a file system without autoextend enabled or any kind of automatic space management; it is much less prone to space issues when managed properly and it is much easier for me to clone databases for development and test requirements from a simple production backup. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
