Re: RAC on linux

I wish I could afford fibre :)

Nope this is just a large experiment, so we're going to try hacking it together with the least amount spent as possible.

We're toying with openssi for our clustering, who knows how this will end up :)

thanks for the input.

joe

Craig I. Hagan wrote:

>>I'd really not purchase RH advanced Server 2.1 and just try it on rh
>>8.0, is this even possible?, I've got like no experience on the
>>clustering side of operating systems.
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>I can't see why not, with a few caveats.
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>First, AS is effectively redhat 7.2 with a different kernel and a couple of
>other (minor) package tweaks. This suggests that you'll want to work with
>either 7.2 or 7.3. RH 8.0 started building stuff with gcc32 as opposed to 2.96,
>which may make things a little different -- OTOH oracle9202 runs fine on my RH8
>box.
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>The toughie will be OCFS. I've a feeling that it may be hard to get to work w/o
>the AS kernel. But, if you run raw, you should have no problems.
>
>Are you building with fibre channel or firewire for your testing?
>
>-- craig
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>>I've searched the OTN, oracle and RH sites to not much luck.
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>>Anyone tried this on non RH AS 2.1 and just used regular RH 8.0 and if
>>so are you willing to share the good/bad and otherwise of your luck with it?
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>>If there is something I missed in the docs on what I need to do to make
>>it happen, point me that way and I'll be glad to read up on it.
>>
>>thanks, joe
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