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Hemant K Chitale
The database and XFS are not certified together. It should work, but if you ever have a problem you are on your own. Oracle's database support group can say "not our problem, because we don't support XFS" and Oracle's Linux support group can say "not our problem, because we don't support the database".
Does this matter? Probably not, as you are using VMware, which is not certified no matter what file system you use. The aphorism "might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb" springs to mind.
Hi Alex,
i guess all your questions are answered in MOS ID #1632127.1. We also discussed this on Twitter some time ago.
> Anybody using xfs for Oracle 12c databases? Any experience with support problems due to this stack?
Yes, several of my clients are running 11g and 12c on XFS (OEL 6 and 7). No experience with support, because they had no issue until yet - just better I/O performance (in contrast to EXT)
Best Regards
Stefan Koehler
Freelance Oracle performance consultant and researcher
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Quoting Support Note 1304727.1
FYI - Oracle Support's response to my SR: "As per the certification team, XFS with OL7 is supported for database."
This fact is also "kind of" expressed in the note pointed to by earlier in the thread: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=1304727.1
I am not sure why it has to be such a pain to get a clear, unambiguous answer to a question like this.
Thanks.
Alex Bardos
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