Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161173AbVICH1p (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 03:27:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161180AbVICH1p (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 03:27:45 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:59307 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161173AbVICH1o (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 03:27:44 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: <20050903070639.GC4593@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.8.1 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:27:41 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 20 In article <20050903070639.GC4593@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> you wrote: > for ocfs we have tons of production customers running many terabyte > databases on a cfs. why ? because dealing with the raw disk froma number > of nodes sucks. because nfs is pretty broken for a lot of stuff, there > is no consistency across nodes when each machine nfs mounts a server > partition. yes nfs can be used for things but cfs's are very useful for > many things nfs just can't do. want a list ? Oh thats interesting, I never thought about putting data files (tablespaces) in a clustered file system. Does that mean you can run supported RAC on shared ocfs2 files and anybody is using that? Do you see this go away with ASM? Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/