Re: xfs for Oracle

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:14:37PM -0600, Jeffrey Bryson wrote:
> We are debating which filesystem to use with Oracle on Suse9 or Suse10.
> We are not using RAC.  We found this statement in Metalink:
>  
> Please refer to the link below that indicates that the recommended file
> systems are Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), ext3 (with
> O_SYNC), NFS, OCFS, ReiserFS, and raw. XFS is not supported.
>  
> We were going with XFS until we found the above statement by Oracle.
> Why is XFS not supported by Oracle and
> will XFS be supported any time soon?

You're asking the wrong people.  Let us know what their reason is
though, if you manage to find out from them...

cheers.

-- 
Nathan