Re: ACFS for Database Files
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx" <rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:12:20 -0800
ACFS is a volume on top of ASM.
No reason for rebal, etc, to not work.
As for being premature, that doesn't seem to be the case.
ACFS is a fully POSIX compliant FS - there is an excellent discussion on
linked in about it.
Can't find it just at this moment...
Jared
On Friday, December 12, 2014, <rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting thought… I did think about this a bit
>
> Thought 1 – I doubt that ACFS in its pure form will be what will end up
> for DB files. It will have to be some form of ASM which is what sort of
> even cloudFS ends up using.
>
> I am also unsure if ACFS by itself will provide for all the bells and
> whistles including rebalancing, data distribution across disks etc that ASM
> does.
>
> Till that happens it seems premature to use ACFS directly for DB files
>
>
>
> Maybe I misunderstand the question
>
>
>
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> One of the things I'm mulling over right now is the use of ACFS to host
> database files - it seems likely that this is where database files will end
> up in some future database version. One of the things I'm interested in is
> how many others are considering the same move. I've therefore created a
> simple survey (2 questions, 1 optional) and would be grateful if you could
> take a few seconds to fill it in. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TFRPTP5
> As per usual when I've got a reasonable number of responses I'll share the
> results.
>
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info
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