RE: Julian Dyke's RAC book

>>>logs on OCFS. Problem with OCFS is that it can ONLY do
>>>direct I/O and file access utilities like RMAN are horribly
>>>slow. In other words, RMAN can benefit enormously from pre-fetch.
>>>I learned that the hard way. He did include the discussion
>>>about the OCFS block size, which is something that I learned

Oh, I forgot to say that while doing the technical review of Julian's book, I tried to get another point to stick about OCFS2. It doesn't work unless you have 3 nodes...just ask SuSE (the only distro that ships it)...read more:

http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/now-is-the-time-to-open-sou rce/

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