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Piet,
Of course I don't mind you mentioning other products.
The architecture you mention, OCFS for datafiles and NFS for Software ( Oracle Home) is popular. I think it has problems however. I'd hate to see the filer crash. SANS can be architected with full redundancy so Oracle Home is always available... but this is not a call for religious wars :-)
When it comes to clustered filesystems, folks seem to forget that there is more to a database than the datafiles. There are external tables, imp/exp/SQL*Loader input file, reports, config files, compressed offline redo logs, etc etc etc... these things all require a general purpose CFS... Again, not a call for religious wars. I do want to provide a URL to the paper that Piet and Jim refer to...it is on the openworld website or on polyserve.com:
https://www.oracleworld2003.com/published/36700/OOW2003_Paper36700.pdf
http://www.polyserve.com/pdf/FDC_paper.pdf
-- Posted via http://dbforums.comReceived on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 12:19:52 CDT