Peter McMahon wrote: > I'm I missing something - or is OCFS2 not supposed to > be a 'general purpose' clustered file system? I know > it supposed to be certified for shared OH ? > > Project Manager is getting scared - not happy with > performance - say OCFS2 is not ready for the prime > time...? wants to start using GFS from RH...but costs > a small fortune...not sure we can justify the cost...
Peter, Unless your infrastructure is such that ASM does not make sense, why not try it? The problem I have with OCFS2 currently is that you have to have an OCFS2 filesystem per LUN; there is no support for LVM, etc. This means that if your EMC storage only gives you 200GB meta-LUNs, that's your max OCFS2 filesystem size. One of the reasons we're not pursuing ASM is backups; our IT groups have shunned RMAN for years and ASM requires the use of RMAN for backups. This means our internal backup tools that handle backups (including EMC-specific commands) would have to be re-written to use RMAN. /Brian/ _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
