Re: Any comments on database/file system storage options?

From: LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:20:23 +0200
Message-ID: <6e9345580906181620i3bdf64abvc966063aa582c7_at_mail.gmail.com>



I dont think you need a patch because there is no patch which makes OCFS2 work with plain LVM.

I think there are plans to make OCFS2 work with nonclustered LVM but no dates yet.

Thanks!

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LSC


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Maureen English <sxmte_at_email.alaska.edu>wrote:


> That is exactly what our problem is. It isn't supported...and we can't
> afford to not have this system unsupported.
>
> Oracle support told us that the supported configuration is CLVM with GFS,
> but GFS costs money. So, we're looking for the solution with OCFS2.
>
> Apparently, our version of OCFS2 needed to be patched.
>
> - Maureen
>
>
>
> LS Cheng wrote:
>
>> You have OCFS2 on LVM2?
>>
>> That is not supported either in single node or clustered AFAIK but if you
>> use the lvm2-cluster package I think it is (you better open a SR). With a
>> supported CLVM you can perform online resizing.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> LSC
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Maureen English <sxmte_at_email.alaska.edu<mailto:
>> sxmte_at_email.alaska.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have 3 RHEL5 machines and are trying to decide how to correctly
>> configure
>> them as a clustered system that will run a variety of applications,
>> as well
>> as many Oracle databases.
>>
>> Oracle tells us that the only options are ASM or CLVM with GFS.
>> Isn't ASM
>> only for Oracle databases, though?
>>
>> We are currently at release 10.2.0.4.0 for our Oracle databases.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> Note that we currently have these 3 machines set up with LVM2 and
>> Oracle
>> Clusterware, but are not running any RAC databases, just single
>> instance
>> databases. The problem we've run into is in trying to resize the LUNs.
>>
>> - Maureen (not a sysadmin....)
>>
>>
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