We didn't try Linux+RAC+OCFS (I did have RH Linux+OPS 8.1.7.1 running at
home - but you
can't compare that with a heavily loaded production machine)... serveral
Oracle people
talked us about switching our wintel RAC to Linux. Personally - I think it's
a better combination but
the users and developers we're too frustrated with the whole concept - after
a year of
severe problems and lotsa tars... who wouldn't, so play-time was over. In
all honesty, I
do not think RAC is a bad product - everything stands and falls with the
hardware and
platform you run it on (and the support for that matter) ... and windows is
not something
I personally would use for my HA database !
We still have a windows cluster somewhere in the back of our lab ... when we
find some time
to play again ... maybe we'll have a crack at Linux+RAC+OCFS :-)
"Charles J. Fisher" <cfisher_at_rhadmin.org> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSO.4.53.0307181231580.21982_at_bart.rhadmin.org...
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, koert54 wrote:
>
> > The only stable RAC setup I've seen is on tru64 - you just have to love
> > tru64's clustered filesystem.
> > It'll take a long time before I regain confidence in a RAC setup...
>
> What about RAC on Linux with Oracle's cluster file system (isn't it called
> GFS?)? Oracle seems pretty bullish about it, and they seem to hand MS
> their head in a basket on TPC running the same hardware.
>
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