From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751270AbVIEOR2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:17:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751276AbVIEOR2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:17:28 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:9858 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751270AbVIEOR2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:17:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:16:31 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining Message-ID: <20050905141631.GG5498@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20050903070639.GC4593@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2005-09-03T09:27:41, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Oh thats interesting, I never thought about putting data files (tablespaces) > in a clustered file system. Does that mean you can run supported RAC on > shared ocfs2 files and anybody is using that? That is the whole point why OCFS exists ;-) > Do you see this go away with ASM? No. Beyond the table spaces, there's also ORACLE_HOME; a cluster benefits in several aspects from a general-purpose SAN-backed CFS. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"