Re: GFS, what's remaining

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <20050903070639.GC4593@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> for ocfs we have tons of production customers running many terabyte
> databases on a cfs. why ? because dealing with the raw disk froma number
> of nodes sucks. because nfs is pretty broken for a lot of stuff, there
> is no consistency across nodes when each machine nfs mounts a server
> partition. yes nfs can be used for things but cfs's are very useful for
> many things nfs just can't do. want a list ? 

Oh thats interesting, I never thought about putting data files (tablespaces)
in a clustered file system. Does that mean you can run supported RAC on
shared ocfs2 files and anybody is using that? Do you see this go away with
ASM?

Greetings
Bernd
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