Prabhakar,
   
       This post is only my personal opinion. I do not work for Oracle nor have 
any close contact with the support and development groups. But I never heard of 
anyone using this combination.
   
       This is kind of a gray area, since Oracle usually provides support for 
OCFS2 in conjunction with RAC database. The APPS people is a different group 
internally at Oracle, so even if this is officially supported you could get 
into situations where the support analysts start to redirect the TAR between 
these groups, or could argue that since the issues are not related to Oracle 
Database or Oracle database binaries they would not fix it.
   
      I would not do it unless with a very large customer that could escalate 
any issues to get a fast resolution with support. It probably is better to get 
a NAS storage and map it using NFS.
   
     That said since it is supported for the database binaries, there should 
not be immediate problems with other files. The FAQ about shared APPL_TOP on 
metalink says that any disk sharing technology can be used.
   
      One thing that comes to my attention is that Oracle Forms uses memory 
mapped files extensively. I dont know how completelly this is implemented on 
OCFS2 and if it works well.  Anyone can comment on this? There are some posts 
on this list about problems with shared mmap.
   
  Regards,
  Luis
  

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  All,

Is Shared APPL_TOP certified with 11i on OCFS2? Please send me the information 
as soon as possible..

We have two RAC nodes on ASM file system and one middle tier right now. Now 
want to setup Shared APPL_TOP so need your help whether this is a certied with 
OCFS2 or not.

OS is SUSE 9 SP3.

Regards,
Prabhakar Tammina.
(614)598-3487(cell).


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