Re: enabling dnfs when it's not being used

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:12:02 -0500
Message-ID: <54E48FA2.4080401_at_yahoo.com>

Thanks. I humbly admit that my info is from Oracle 11.2. That was the last time I needed dNFS. The 12c instances that I using are attached to Dell Equalogic by a fiber channel. I have ASM and file system (XFS) databases, but no NFS. Bummer.
Regards,

On 2/18/2015 6:51 AM, Freek D'Hooge wrote:
> Mladen,
>
> At least in 12c dNFS supports NFSv4:
> http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/CWSOL/storage.htm#CWSOL606
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
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> On wo, 2015-02-18 at 06:01 -0500, Mladen Gogala wrote:
>> On 2/17/2015 2:40 PM, Martin Berger wrote:
>> > to close this Q (for the records) Kevin Closson told us offline any
>> > ODM code is just not used if not needed.
>> > So no bugs should be added without need.
>> >
>> > Martin
>>
>> DNFS is just a library, you use it if you configure it and mount it. I
>> prefer kernel NFS, since dNFS is version 3 and kernel NFS is usually
>> version 4. There are plenty of reasons for using NFSv4 protocol over
>> NFSv3, local caching, better locking and asynchronous IO among other
>> things. And I agree with Kevin: bugs should only be added if you need them.
>>

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