Re: GFS, what's remaining

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2005-09-03T09:27:41, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

That is the whole point why OCFS exists ;-)

> Do you see this go away with ASM?

No. Beyond the table spaces, there's also ORACLE_HOME; a cluster
benefits in several aspects from a general-purpose SAN-backed CFS.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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