Hi,

On 17/09/2012, at 8:47 PM, Casper Bnag <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

> month, that just makes me wonder why Oracle didn't use these latest bits. 

We used the most stable release of btrfs that was available when the 
development of the UEK was done. Keep in mind that while it's versioned at 
2.6.39, it's actually 3.0.16 under the hood. It's just that some userspace 
doesn't like having a kernel version that doesn't start with "2.6"

>> Out of interest, have you done a performance benchmark with ASM using ASMlib
>> on the same platform? 
> 
> Sorry, no. Our experience with ASM is limited, we came to the conclusion once
> that we like being able to handle the files in a plain mountable file-system.

Perhaps, but ASM would provide all the functionality you require, including 
snapshots and rollback, at the highest possible performance. Certainly a lot 
higher than both ZFS and btrfs. And it's fully certified and supported by 
Oracle.

As an alternative, why not consider using Oracle VM on the machine and creating 
database VMs instead? You can then use the snapshot capability of Oracle VM 
while still running supported and certified filesystems inside each guest.

(We should also probably take this discussion off-list, as it has drifted away 
from btrfs proper). Feel free to reply to me directly if you want.

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