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. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:52 PM To: mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxx; gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l 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/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l This message may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error or are not the intended recipient, you may not use, copy, disseminate or distribute it; do not open any attachments, delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by e-mail that you have done so. Thank you. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l