Re: Rac on Linux

On 2006-09-13, Brian Peasland <dba_at_nospam.peasland.net> wrote:
>> OCFS is open source and it is not Oracle's to control.
>>
>> But for someone to adopt a technology that Oracle has lost interest in
>> is a guarantee of support issues moving forward.
>
> Like I said, "This is not a discourse on which is better, OCFS or ASM."

        There's also GFS if you are running Redhat.

	Ultimately, a filesystem level support issue should be expected
	to fall back on the Operating System vendor regardless of which
	Unix OS we're talking about.

	The idea that Oracle would also provide the cfs is a pretty
	new one anyone. The fact that it will be going back to the
	control of the underlying OS shouldn't really be that disturbing.
	

> I was just responding to your remark "OFCS is marked for obsolescence",
> which I am stating is only true from Oracle's standpoint. From the Linux
> community's viewpoint, OCFS is not marked for obsolescence.
>
> Which should the DBA use for RAC? That is not a question that I
> discussed as you have already covered it quite nicely! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
>
>

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