RE: OCFS2

Mladen Gogala wrote:

>> I'm a firm believer in "you get what you pay for"...and with OCFS
that
>> is so true.
>
>That, unfortunately, applies to Linux as well. Stability-wise, it's
>nowhere near HP-UX, AIX or Solaris.

Bull. And we're using HP-UX, Solaris and Linux. And yes, we *paid* for Linux and we have support for it. Linux is as stable as HP-UX and Solaris.

If you want to roll your own using a non-certified Linux distro for Oracle or as an enterprise o/s, then you only have yourself to blame. (and yes, I'm running non-certified distros too using Oracle 9i, Oracle iDir, and JBOSS (with current uptime of over 152 days - it was last bounced due to a powerfailure as its not connected to the UPS).

Many people's experiences with Linux is based on ignorance - and so are their comments. I once had to do an export of two production schemas and import these into into a new instance on a new platform. The developers neglected to tell me that they were using public synonyms (not my orginal database - they also had sysdba access) and views based on these public synonyms. So the production stuff was broken on the new instance. As a result they thought that synonyms and views were a problem in Oracle and simply stopped using them at all in new developments. Until I found out and managed to fix their perceptions.

I classify the statement that "Linux is not stable" in that same category. Pure ignorance.

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Billy

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