Re: 9i RAC : OCFS vs Raw Devices

One of the drawbacks with OCFS as I experience it, is that you can't host the OH on the clustered file system. Software maintenance/patching can be a nightmare if managing a larger number of nodes/instances. Don't know what your timeframe is, but it might be worth looking out for OCFS ver.2.0 which is just around the corner. Ver.2.0 supports hosting both OH and archive log destinations on the clustered file system.

If you are willing to look at alternatives to OCFS, I've been quite impressed with Polyserver Matrix Server. It's a more mature product than OCFS and provides a true symmetric cluster file system.

Sten

"Majd" <autres_at_free.fr> wrote in message news:3f79db9e$0$20156$626a54ce_at_news.free.fr...
> I have to set up a 2 nodes Oracle 9i cluster, with RedHat AS 2.1.
> I'm generally using raw devices, but this time I've got too many to
create,
> and I prefer to use ocfs ( oracle cluster file system).
> But as the cluster going to be used in a stable/production environment,
I'm
> a little bit cautious about ocfs, and looking for feedback from people who
> have experiences with it.
> Is ocfs stable ? what about performances ? some bugs ?
>
> thanks
> Majd
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 30 2003 - 20:34:24 CDT