Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Shockley, Gerard C wrote: I'm at the zSeries Oracle Special Interest Group this week and Oracle says OCSF2 is not supported and non-directional. They say use ASM and RAC. That means the file system is not supported to be used with the database. The file system itself seems pretty solid to me.

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-29 Thread David Boyes
Please note that OCFS2 is not supported for production use on Linux for System z. This is largely due to a lack of extensive enough testing/QA work. It should work for you, but at this time its only recommended for testing. Now, if one needed to have a file system r/w from more than 1

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-29 Thread Jim Elliott
NFSv3 or AFS are reliable for this purpose and work well. GFS was supported for a while (before RH bought Sistina) -- might still be available. IBM will sell you GPFS. David: GPFS is not (yet) available for Linux on z. Jim

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-29 Thread David Boyes
NFSv3 or AFS are reliable for this purpose and work well. GFS was supported for a while (before RH bought Sistina) -- might still be available. IBM will sell you GPFS. David: GPFS is not (yet) available for Linux on z. Hmm. Guess one of the dev folks pre-announced it to a bunch of IBM

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-29 Thread Shockley, Gerard C
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:09 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OCFS2 Setup NFSv3 or AFS are reliable for this purpose and work well. GFS was supported for a while (before RH bought Sistina) -- might still be available. IBM

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:14 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shockley, Gerard C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm at the zSeries Oracle Special Interest Group this week and Oracle says OCSF2 is not supported and non-directional. They say use ASM and RAC. That would be news to our product

OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Fujimoto
Hello All, I'm trying to set up a two node ocfs2 cluster and run it on two SLES10 SP1 guests running in two different z/VM 5.3 lpars. The shared disk is an lvm volume comprised of 3390-3s, and I'm using the standard disk-based heartbeat and port . I was able to get this to work when both

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Fujimoto Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] OCFS2 Setup Hello All, I'm trying to set up a two node ocfs2 cluster and run it on two SLES10 SP1 guests running in two different z/VM 5.3 lpars

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Perry
Jim Fujimoto wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to set up a two node ocfs2 cluster and run it on two SLES10 SP1 guests running in two different z/VM 5.3 lpars. The shared disk is an lvm volume comprised of 3390-3s, and I'm using the standard disk-based heartbeat and port . I was able to get this

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Fujimoto
. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Fujimoto Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] OCFS2 Setup Hello All, I'm trying to set up a two node ocfs2 cluster and run it on two SLES10 SP1 guests

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:48 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Fujimoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to set up a two node ocfs2 cluster and run it on two SLES10 SP1 guests running in two different z/VM 5.3 lpars. Please note that OCFS2 is not supported for production

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark wrote: Please note that OCFS2 is not supported for production use on Linux for System z. This is largely due to a lack of extensive enough testing/QA work. It should work for you, but at this time its only recommended for testing. Now, if one needed to have a file system r/w from more

Re: OCFS2 Setup

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:34 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Now, if one needed to have a file system r/w from more than 1 linux server on z, what would the current supported recommendation be? And is anyone doing such with MQ Series? At this