Re: High Availability Options
- From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Frits Hoogland <frits.hoogland@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:38:53 -0500
Thanks for the correction Fritz - I misspoke. In my mind I was thinking
of the "rolling a distribution" process that they forked, but that
wasn't what I said. Choosing which modules to include is part of the
distribution process - mainly I was saying that I'd wager Oracle will
include asmlib in their particular distribution of the linux kernel.
Since the kernel is in git these days, I'm not sure there's much meaning
to the idea of forking anyway - since every branch is a fork. :)
-Jeremy
Frits Hoogland wrote:
> I agree with your view on the asmlib/udev matter. I like udev over
> asmlib, but if you are not able to manage udev, asmlib will probably
> do without much heavy linux lifting.
>
> From what I've seen Oracle did not fork a kernel of their own. They
> just rolled a kernel of their own, just like every distro does. I
> don't understand the hassle around it. Anyone can download the kernel
> source and roll a kernel of their own. Probably the reason lies in in
> some stuff needed by the database machine (OFED/infiniband, the #
> processors/cpu threads, NUMA), so some tweaked stuff. But really, what
> is the deal?
>
> Frits Hoogland
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