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From: Andrew Kerber To: Christopher.Taylor2@parallon.net Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Content-type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 46069 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-to: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: andrew.kerber@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: andrew.kerber@gmail.com List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: oracle-l X-List-ID: oracle-l List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: oracle-l Have you used ASM? On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, wrote: > I'm curious if anyone uses anything other than OCFS/OCFS2 filesystems for > their RAC shared storage areas? > It seems that OCFS (our version anyway) is not extendable unless you take > it offline. A key point for me would be a clustered filesystem that is > dynamically growable as needed. > > Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? > > Chris Taylor > Oracle DBA > Parallon IT&S > > > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l