It's really a good question. We should know _which exactly combinations are 
used internally_. (OS, File System, 
NAS/SAN).

In reality therse particular combinations are most stable and preffered ones - 
no matter what is _officially certified_.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Luis Freitas
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected]
  Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Urgent :: 11i on OCFS2.. I mean 
APPL_TOP,COMMON_TOP etc..


  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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