OK, I realize this is a loaded question, but I really am interested in some feedback.
I am preparing to create a new OCFS2 cluster -- several of them, actually -- and I have the luxury of choosing my Linux distribution. I am agnostic on this, save for a slight bias against Fedora Core (and, by implication, Red Hat) due to some bad experiences a few years ago. My current short list of options reads: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 OpenSuse 11.2 or 11.3 Although I have my choice of distributions now, and I have a couple of months to prototype, once the choice is made I will be stuck supporting the configuration for years; hardware and O/S changes will be costly. So I want to get this right. I have been reading this mailing list for a while, and it sounds like OCFS2 has had some fairly serious bugs fixed just in the last few weeks and months (e.g., ENOSPC when there is plenty of space). Which distribution, if any, has incorporated these fixes? Which would be most likely to provide such fixes in the future? I am also curious to hear success stories, failure stories, advocacy, warnings... Feel free to reply to me personally if you do not want to spam the list, and I will post a summary. Possibly relevant other technologies I intend to use: iSCSI over 10GigE Linux md software RAID-0 (my iSCSI hardware RAID units already provide redundancy) My configuration will be storing 100+ terabytes on a single partition. (Sounds crazy, perhaps? My application is a little... special.) Thanks! - Pat _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
