Thanks for the posting. Good news. I need to check if FC3 includes LVM and the SELINUX security stuff. Off to play... Regards, Mike On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:26:46 -0500, Gogala, Mladen <mladen.gogala@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last night I decided that it is time to install FC3 on my system and remove > the aging RH-9. > First, the "upgrade" option doesn't work. I had to allow the installer to > run "mkfs". Fortunately for me, > I have backups, so no problems there. I had oracle 10.1.0.3.0 installed on > RH-9 and I was able to > start it right away. Even more, FC3 has async I/O and direct I/O built in > the kernel and I was > able to set filesystemio_options to "setall" and it worked like a charm. It > was a real deal, not just > the lack of complaint, because I did strace and I monitored FS buffers, the > numbers in use wasn't growing > as I was doing selects. Now,I only have to resolve an issue with NVIDIA > drivers. FC3 looks very, very good. > The FS that I use for database is JFS. The database looks and feels faster > on FC3 then it ever looked > on an ancient RH-9 > > -- > Mladen Gogala > A & E TV Network > Ext. 1216 > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l