>>> On 11/3/2011 at 01:20 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > The combination of Oracle DB software and OCFS2 on Intel or SPARC is what > they (Oracle) are pushing to support, and what they are telling us is that > they do not intend to support the database on versions of OCFS that they do > not support and issue. Since none of us are running that, that's a problem. > > I think there's two issues here: who maintains OCFS and what configurations > Oracle supports. Mark/Novell may be able to address the former, but it is not > clear what is possible if item b remains true. > > I'm not trying to say Novell can't do it, but I would not underestimate > Oracle's need to be opportunistic.
Which is an entirely different problem than what was originally stated. Replacing OCFS2 won't help with _this_ problem, it will only make it worse. So, the whole concept of "what are we going to replace OCFS2 with" is framed incorrectly to start with, if you're worried about running Oracle databases. >From what I can tell, Oracle's actual statements about all of this have been >directed at forcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux users to migrate to Oracle Linux >(presumably because they weren't selling many subscriptions by allowing >customers to choose). From http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ : "Oracle also extends support for the OCFS2 file system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux users for use only with Oracle's database product. This support is limited to OCFS2 versions 1.2 and 1.4. Later versions are not available for RHEL. For additional details, please refer to Doc ID 1253272.1 on My Oracle Support titled Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2) Software Support and Update Policy for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supported by Red Hat. "For OCFS2 support on Novell's SUSE Linux Exterprise Server, please check with SUSE." So, I think _my_ customers are OK. I can't speak to anyone else's customers. Perhaps there's going to be a _lot_ of "Have you thought about DB2?" conversations happening in the future. :) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
