Re: Rac on Linux

On 2006-09-13, HansF <Fuzzy.Greybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:18:54 -0700, hpuxrac wrote:
>
>
>> Do you like your database vendor to also provide your file systems?
>
> Why not?

        You no longer have access to your database using standard well establish, well known and well understood system level utilities. Your filesystems are now a blackbox that only Oracle can penetrate. Your are COMPLETELY dependent on Oracle for everything.

>
> Oracle has been managing data on disk - at the disk level without an
> interceding file system - for many years. We should be able to trust them
> more than most ...

        Yup, and most people have opted against this.

>
> Just don't expect a great UI.
>

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