The post below is a translation and repost of an article by Eric Vercelleto on his Le Village Informix Blog last August. Here is the link to the original for my French speaking friends:
http://levillageinformix.blogspot.ca/2011/08/choix-du-type-de-file-system-sur-linux.html
This is not a literal translation, but I hope it is faithful to the Eric's meaning and intent. Thanks to Sonny Bernier for showing the original to me and many thanks to Eric for permitting me to reprint it here and for all that he does for the Informix community in France and around the world.
Choosing the type of file system on Linux: if you have any doubt ...
Hi all, It is under the threatening sky that I take my pen to dig into a test I have wanted to remake for some time:
That is the impact of the choice of the type of file system on which to implement your chunks for Informix Dynamic Server on Linux.
As you probably know, raw devices have for some time been considered obsolete technology on most Linux distributions. It is typical of the conflict of interest between database vendors who advocate its use, and the editors of the OS and hardware manufacturers who go in the opposite direction.
How to implement chunks in IDS is not without effect, insofar as it directly affects the performance of input-output, and so the overall performance of the Informix server. As a reminder, it's always good to divide up the data on the maximum number of disks, and to mirror the physical devices. That's why it is better to create the chunks on disks configured with some redundancy (ex: RAID 0/1, RAID 5, journaled file system, etc. ..), but there are costs in terms performan...
Find the whole article What filesystem type should I use for my Informix database on Linux? on the website Informix - My view.
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