After responding to Jeremy’s message on Oracle-L, it got me reading his blog. On one post, he asks if OCFS2 has a future given the rumored introduction of “ASMfs“, and if it’s worth considering for various purposes, specifically:
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database binaries (vs local files or NFS)
diag top (11g) or admin tree (10g) (vs local files or NFS)
archived [...]
There was an interesting post to the Oracle-L mailing list today about using OS packages in cluster database environments. A quick snippet from the post:
In my day job, I rarely get the opportunity to get as “hands on” as I used to – I still work with Oracle, and of course I still work with our software every day. But the days when I get to roll up my sleeves and dig into a UNIX, storage, or networking problem [...]