On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 06:04:38 am Daniel Baumann wrote:

> i heard, that ocfs2 is called ocfs2 because ocfs1 was oracle intern
> only. not sure if that's true though.

No, it's not. :-)   OCFS2 is a POSIX compliant filesystem, OCFS isn't.

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs/

# Note: OCFS is not intended to be a POSIX compliant file system, there are no
# guarantees that timestamp updates or inode changes are similar in behaviour
# as other filesystems on the same platform or especially on different
# operating systems. Version 1 is specifically designed for Oracle Database
# files, create, move, delete and backup. It is well possible that certain OS
# commands will show different results, this is not considered a malfunction
# inside ocfs. We try when possible and where possible to stick to standard
# behaviour with error messages, e.g. ENOSPACE, etc. However, at the minimum,
# what is required for Oracle to work properly is implemented, anything more
# is not a guarantee.

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