Alternative to ex2fs for large database

[Anon]

Hello All,

I am running redhat 7.0 kernel 2.2.17 with ex2fs as the filesystem.  I have a three gb database that I have to work with, so I cannot use ex2fs for the data directory.  I was wondering if anyone has any experience with a good filesystem alternative for ex2fs.  I am aware that riserfs is not supported in the 2.2.x kernel, and only marginally supported in the 2.4.x kernel.  Any ideas would be appreciated

-Jeff

[smarlowe]

postgresql 7.1, just released, is supposed to be able to get around the 2gbyte limit of ext2fs. I don't have any clue how well it performs in that terrain, having only worked with test databases that big a few time and finding them slow in every dbms there is. Postgresql supports full text indexing, but I have no idea how well it actually works.

I believe Oracle as well can get over the 2 gig file size limit, but can be quite a bit more expensive. It's full text indexing is very fast.

RedHat 7.1 was just released, so you could try testing on that. I don't know if it has reiserfs enabled in the install, but am sure it can bolted on at a later time after the inital install is complete.