Re: Best fs for Oracle RAC

On Sep 26, 1:24 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> hjr.pyth..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sep 25, 3:16 am, Steve Howard <stevedhow..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I agree with this. To provide an actual real-life specific example,
> >> we switched from IBM FAStT storage to EMC by adding the EMC disks to
> >> the existing diskgroup (originally with only FAStT storage). Once the
> >> rebalance to include the EMC disks had completed, we dropped the FAStT
> >> disks from the diskgroup. Clean and easy.
>
> >> Regards,
>
> >> Steve
>
> > As a fan of ASM, it's always nice to see the good stories. But what
> > you've described is not a "migration" in my book. If I had to pick a
> > word, it's a "transition" from one storage vendor to another. No less
> > a powerful demonstration of ASM's capabilities for all that, of
> > course... but not (I suspect) what the OP and Bob were originally
> > talking about.
>
> Technically you are correct but neither of us writes the docs or
> defines the words bandied about by storage vendors.
>
> Whether that was the point of the original question requires either
> the OP or Bob to respond. But it again points out the likelihood of
> misunderstandings when terms are not well defined.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org

Which was precisely my point: in your rush to denounce Bob as obviously ignorant, you neglected to identify what you thought he was ignorant about.

Now you concede that he might not have been ignorant at all, but just using a word ("migration") with a different meaning than what you had **assumed** it should mean.

How about clarifying meaning BEFORE rushing to judgement? That way, you won't leave OP's seeking actual insight stranded in a sea of rhetorical denunciation. Received on Tue Sep 25 2007 - 19:00:30 CDT