Posts Tagged ‘clusters’

Using OCFS2 the right way

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:

database binaries (vs local files or NFS)
diag top (11g) or admin tree (10g) (vs local files or NFS)
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Why OS Packages and Databases Don’t Mix

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: