That may depend on your database load. I tried it with an OLTP database.
I am not sure about the secret sauce in the Oracle's filter driver.
Generic description of the Linux filter drivers can be found here:
https://www.msystechnologies.com/blog/understanding-device-mapper-and-filter-driver/
My assumption is that FD uses OS caching to speed things up. Since it's
supposed to use the same driver as the udev rules, that's the only way
it can be significantly faster, which was, again, not what I observed.
If it uses Linux vfs cache, it will probably be significantly faster for
some read intensive loads. Filter driver is an interface to the real
disk driver, just like the SCSI driver generated by the udev rules.
There is an additional software interrupt in both cases. However, you
gave a good idea. I will create an ACFS file system using both FD and
udev rules and will run bonnie++ on top of that. That will be sort of
objective measure. Sort of, but not not quite. Many things depend on the
type of the database load.
On 3/3/21 8:41 PM, Jared Still wrote:
We will have to agree to disagree on that point. I have measured it, and FD is faster than udev rules or ASMLib
Jared
