RE: Julian Dyke's RAC book

  • From: "Best, David" <David.Best@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:05:39 -0500

RE: OCFS2 needs 3 nodes.

Hey all, is this still an issue?  From the thread on the SuSE mailing
list quoted in Kevin's blog one person commented that it's a
configuration problem. 

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:52 PM
To: mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxx; gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: RE: Julian Dyke's RAC book

>>>logs on OCFS. Problem with OCFS is that it can ONLY do direct I/O and

>>>file access utilities like RMAN are horribly slow. In other words, 
>>>RMAN can benefit enormously from pre-fetch.
>>>I learned that the hard way. He did include the discussion about the 
>>>OCFS block size, which is something that I learned

Oh, I forgot to say that while doing the technical review of Julian's
book, I tried to get another point to stick about OCFS2.
It doesn't work unless you have 3 nodes...just ask SuSE (the only distro
that ships it)...read more:

http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/now-is-the-time-to-open-sou
rce/



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