RE: 9i RAC or 10g RAC ?

From: Montgomerie Steve <steve.montgomerie_at_siemens.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:00:17 -0400
Message-ID: <C9BDA479AFC02649B4B592CE30A7D1AEA6173B@orlq104a.us007.siemens.net>

We're on Windooze so I can't try to reproduce your *touch* test case. We did have some initial problems but no show stoppers. I agree that at the time the time
the documentation for OCFS was weak and so was Oracle Support. I most disappointed with DELL
support though. It took a month of arguing and swapping parts to determine that I had a bad processor tray.
In my incident I could crash a node by running clustercheck. On hearing that DELL support proclaimed that they
did not support customer RAC installs, only solutions that DELL provided.

We had one crash this year and I blame that on myself for skipping maintenance one month and not performing the obligatory reboot every 30 day deal with Win2k.

Steve Montgomerie
PeopleSoft/Oracle Administrator

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Blok [mailto:robert.blok_at_xs4all.nl] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:08 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: 9i RAC or 10g RAC ?

Servers forgetting that they had array controllers
Servers slowed down when recharging batteries
Servers spontanious rebooting
OCFS file header corruptions
OCFS files not being freed
Dell switches thinking for themselves and closing down ports
Failovers that do not failover but powerdown

Need more features?

Some of the features have been solved (e.g. OCFS corruptions) in the latest patches, some will be in the future... Some problems come from the usage of EMC Powerpath in combination with OCFS.

If you haven't got the latest version of OCFS running try this: mkdir <some_ocfs_fs>/test
touch <some_ocfs_fs>/test/some_file
rm <some_ocfs_fs>/test/some_file
rmdir <some_ocfs_fs>/test

You'll see the directory cannot be deleted.

Robert.

Montgomerie Steve wrote:

> What problems did you have with 9i Dell and OCFS? We've been runnning on
it
> for a year with no hiccups.
> Steve Montgomerie
> PeopleSoft/Oracle Administrator
> SIEMENS Shared Services, LLC

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