Ocfs2 users - Aug 2007 - Urgent :: 11i on OCFS2.. I mean APPL_TOP, COMMON_TOP etc..

All,

     Is Shared APPL_TOP certified with 11i on OCFS2?  Please send me the
information as soon as possible..
     
     We have two RAC nodes on ASM file system and one middle tier right now. 
Now want to setup Shared APPL_TOP so need your help whether this is a certied
with OCFS2 or not.

       OS is SUSE 9 SP3.

Regards,
Prabhakar Tammina.
(614)598-3487(cell).

Prabhakar,
   
       This post is only my personal opinion. I do not work for Oracle nor have
any close contact with the support and development groups. But I never heard of
anyone using this combination.
   
       This is kind of a gray area, since Oracle usually provides support for
OCFS2 in conjunction with RAC database. The APPS people is a different group
internally at Oracle, so even if this is officially supported you could get into
situations where the support analysts start to redirect the TAR between these
groups, or could argue that since the issues are not related to Oracle Database
or Oracle database binaries they would not fix it.
   
      I would not do it unless with a very large customer that could escalate
any issues to get a fast resolution with support. It probably is better to get a
NAS storage and map it using NFS.
   
     That said since it is supported for the database binaries, there should not
be immediate problems with other files. The FAQ about shared APPL_TOP on
metalink says that any disk sharing technology can be used.
   
      One thing that comes to my attention is that Oracle Forms uses memory
mapped files extensively. I dont know how completelly this is implemented on
OCFS2 and if it works well.  Anyone can comment on this? There are some posts on
this list about problems with shared mmap.
   
  Regards,
  Luis
  

PRABHAKAR.TAMMINA@ORACLE.COM wrote:
  All,

Is Shared APPL_TOP certified with 11i on OCFS2? Please send me the information
as soon as possible..

We have two RAC nodes on ASM file system and one middle tier right now. Now want
to setup Shared APPL_TOP so need your help whether this is a certied with OCFS2
or not.

OS is SUSE 9 SP3.

Regards,
Prabhakar Tammina.
(614)598-3487(cell).


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