Re: Rac on Linux

On 2006-09-13, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> Brian Peasland wrote:
>>> OFCS is
>>> marked for obsolescence and you really don't want to bring some
>>> third-party volume management vendor into the mix unless you enjoy
>>> finger-pointing exercises.
>>
>> This is not a discourse on which is better, OCFS or ASM. But I do
>> challenge the notion that OCFS is dead or dying. It may be dead from
>> Oracle's development and support point of view, but that is because they
>> have shipped OCFS 2 to the Linux community:
>>
>> http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/117697.htm
>> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-04-2006/0004333067&EDATE=
>>
>>
>> So OCFS will live on in some form or another.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>
> OCFS is open source and it is not Oracle's to control.
>
> But for someone to adopt a technology that Oracle has lost interest in
> is a guarantee of support issues moving forward.

        Oracle doesn't actively support dm-multipath either.

	By your own argument, people should be avoiding Linux 
	entirely just because there is some part of the OS
	stack that Oracle has chosen not to keep under it's
	thumb anymore.

	The same argument applies equally well to ext3 of which
	ocfs is just a fork of.

[deletia]

	Now if Oracle won't play nicely with ANY of the native
	Linux filesystems then that should certainly be a cause
	of concern.

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