Re: 9i RAC or 10g RAC ?

Yes, the FS part of OCFS can be hard to spot :-). Perhaps they should 
have called it OC...

Couldn't agree more regarding VMS. Very stable, very mature. Which is 
why it's now dead.

I honestly think the biggest problem with any 
super-dynamic/super-fast-evolving business, like IT, is that anything 
that reaches a level of near-perfection with respect to the need of its 
users... will be replaced by something more chaotic. I cannot find any 
exceptions in the IT world, but would like to hear from anyone who can.

Mac is dead.
VMS is dead.
UNIX is dying. First Solaris, then Tru-64...
Novell is dying.

Oracle10g is pretty close to being perfect in my eyes.

Mogens


Jesse, Rich wrote:

> Yes, GFS would be nice.  I've also been waiting for a beta of Veritas' =
> CFS for Linux since December '03, but it's still a no-show.
> 
> I haven't messed with OCFS since v1.08, but it indeed was scary then.  =
> It flat out refused to work under RH9 (AS2.1 wouldn't support our =
> hardware and we didn't want to spend $ on AS3), until I hacked it with a =
> modified RH9 patch for JFS.  Like Oracle says, OCFS is only meant to =
> handle Oracle datafiles for RAC and nothing else.  And they mean it.  =
> Oracle PIO performance was so bad (~1M/s), that I dumped OCFS in favor =
> of raw.  I did see a presentation of Wim's on OTN about some tips on =
> implementing OCFS that I didn't do, such as the OCFS versions of cp, dd, =
> etc., but I don't see what that would have to do with Oracle PIO =
> performance.
> 
> I see that OCFS has newer versions now.  Perhaps it performs better now, =
> or perhaps it's just easier to get it to perform.  If you want RAC to =
> install easily (and probably run like it was meant to), try it out on =
> OpenVMS.  Has anyone here tried RAC on an OpenVMS cluster?  It looks =
> (*looks*) like it's a no-brainer setup, thanks to the most mature and =
> stable clustering around.  :)
> 
> Rich
> 
> Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
> rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:00 AM
>>To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: 9i RAC or 10g RAC ?
>>=20
>>=20
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>>Anyone have any ideas on when/if Oracle will start supporting GFS?  =
> 
> =3D
> 
>>Since Redhat bought them I would believe it is only a matter of time =
> 
> =3D
> 
>>before it is supported by Oracle.  My understanding is that it is a =
> 
> =3D
> 
>>solid clustered filesystem technology, I'm still a little=20
>>weary of OCFS.
> 
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