Which version of the fs and tools are you running?
Roeschley, Dale wrote:>
> I am new to this list so I hope this is the correct list to post this
> question.
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> We are using OCFS2 for our shared Oracle home for CRS, ASM, and 2
> database homes and the agent home. However, this shared filesystem
> locked up on us on Friday. The linux ls command would hang sometimes;
> CRS began evicting nodes. We had to stop everything, reboot the nodes
> with the OCFS2 mount point commented out, run fsck.ocfs2 in repair
> mode which found a bunch of stuff and repaired it. When we ran
> fsck.ocfs2 while the filesystem was mounted, it came up with 3 Inode
> messages. When we ran it without the filesystem mounted, it came up
> with a number of Inode zero length directory messages, many, many
> global cluster bitmap messages, and then a few Inode orphan directory
> messages. When we ran it a second time, it came up with 2 Inode link
> count messages. The third time we ran it, it same up clean.
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> My questions are:
>
> 1) Is OCFS2 stable enough to support shared homes for all the
> Oracle homes?
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> 2) Is there any way to find out if an OCFS2 mount point is
> having a problem before it gets to a critical point?
>
> 3) Would moving all the db dump directories to local mount point
> alleviate any of the issues with OCFS2? The reason I ask this is
> because of all the trace files and cdmp junk that Oracle creates, in
> addition everything CRS is logging.
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> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments.
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> Dale Roeschley
>
> Lead Database Administrator
>
> Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
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> 312-663-2328
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