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RE: OCFS2 needs 3 nodes.
Hey all, is this still an issue? From the thread on the SuSE mailing list quoted in Kevin's blog one person commented that it's a configuration problem.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:52 PM
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Subject: 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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