> It would also be helpful to hear if anyone has done wide deployments > of OCFS. (How many systems do you have running it?) Or any other > experiences/stories about working with ocfs2. I'm curious - how many > people on the oracle-l list are running ocfs2? >
Our story: In 2006 we have the need to switch from FreeBSD to another operating system with any filesystem that supported shared disk concurrent. Since our storage support two connected servers and we was working with a fail-over FreeBSD cluster that get from 40 minutes to more than one hour to bring the unit again in case of failure, due to filesystem checks. So we evaluated RHEL (GFS) and SLES (ocfs2) for a month and half as possible solutions to our problem. Our final decision was to adopt ocfs2 running with SuSE SLES for some reasons: * Was stable on the linux kernel. * Proved stable and secure on our tests. * Was supported by the vendor without additional support contracts. * Some other commercial stuff that I can't remember. So in 2007 we deployed the solution in the production env. and in the first days we hit a bug on NFS handling due to our FreeBSD NFS clients. Mr. Sunil and his team helped on everything possible to find and fix the problem. Since then we are running very stable with our 2 node clustered application servers, 4 FreeBSD NFS clients and 1 OpenSuSE NFS client. We just rebooted the servers to upgrade from SLES SP1 to SLES SP2, witch upgraded the OCFS2 version from 1.2 to 1.4 without problems. I known its a small deployment, but our deployment case shows the commitment of Oracle and SuSE (as Mr. Sunil added some SuSE employees to fallow the case) in supporting users and solving problems quickly. Cluster information overview: Main objectives: Concurrent access to a shared disk; Fail-over NFS servers; General file storage. Nodes: 2 Storage size: 800GB Storage connection type: Fibber-channel Regards, -- .:''''':. .:' ` Sérgio Surkamp | Gerente de Rede :: ........ [email protected] `:. .:' `:, ,.:' *Grupos Internet S.A.* `: :' R. Lauro Linhares, 2123 Torre B - Sala 201 : : Trindade - Florianópolis - SC :.' :: +55 48 3234-4109 : ' http://www.gruposinternet.com.br _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
