Crackpot Ideas

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 [...]

Everyone and their mother has been writing about this, but yes, Cisco is entering the server business.  Details are still skimpy, but it looks like it’s a blade server, it’s got VMWare baked in, and the word “virtualization” gets thrown around every three sentences or so.  I’ve been talking to some people who don’t understand [...]