RE: OCFS2

Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Take a look at the list of patches for 9.2.0.6 on Linux. Cluster
manager
> was actually downgraded by 9.2.0.6 installation.

Running 10G on Linux cluster. Cannot comment on 9i. 10G however seems to have its share of the problems like those I've had in general with Oracle on everything from Reliant to HP-UX. Nothing about Linux that caused worse errors.

> Patches are always late for Linux and bugs are more severe.

Why blame Linux for Oracle being late with patches for Linux? And unless I'm mistaken, that only applies to Linux x86-64.

As for bugs more severe.. I've run into severe bugs on all platforms. Windows being the lead culprit and Linux ranking low - even lower than some other *nix flavours I've worked with.

> I have experienced a fair share
> of problems (CUPS sometimes must be restarted, some ethernet
> drivers were faulty, NVIDIA doesn't work with dual monitors).

Compare apples with apples please. A home system or a standard office system is by no means a certified server platform than can be compared with a Sun or HP box. Obviously when dealing with the very wide range of commercial desktop-based systems, you will have problems (btw I've run dual monitors on RedHat 7-9 and Fedora Core using nVidia for many years without any problems).

And since when do you need dual monitor support and hardware accellerated OpenGL drivers for a Unix server running Oracle?

If you want to compare Linux server stability with Solaris and HP-UX, you must compare it with Linux running on proper server hardware.

Hell, I have run our web servers on Dell towers using a hacked version of Redhat 9 and now Fedora Core for the last 3+ years. With Oracle 9i (which is btw not certified for that platform). With JBOSS, Perl, various flavours of Apache, PHP, custom Apache DSOs written in Kylix etc. etc. Uptime of these web servers *exceed* that of our Solaris and HP-UX servers.

We are now running Linux ifo Solaris on Sun hardware.

The issue is not getting what you paid for. It is making correct use of it. And implying that Linux is somehow less that HP-UX or Solaris simply because it is Open Source is pure bull. Period.

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Billy

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