We have deployed 4 different Oracle 11GR1 RAC clusters on Linux using OCFS2 for the OCR and Voting disks. Our system administrators are new to OCFS2 and are very comfortable with Veritas Cluster File System, but not OCFS2. On these clusters, any problems we encounter with an unknown cause are attributed to OCFS2. They want to replace OCFS2 with Veritas. Can anyone provide Pros and Cons of OCFS2 when compared to Veritas? Thanks, Reid Reid McKinley ******************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. TIAA-CREF ******************************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-users/attachments/20100126/aa586af6/attachment.html
Why are you even considering using a cluster filesystem (of any kind) for OCR and Voting disks? With 11g Clusterware you can use the block devices of the shared disks (or multipath devices) directly. There's no need to complicate things by using a filesystem. John 2010/1/26 McKinley, Reid <RMckinley at tiaa-cref.org>:> We have deployed 4 different Oracle 11GR1 RAC clusters on Linux using OCFS2 > for the OCR and Voting disks. > > > > Our system administrators are new to OCFS2 and are very comfortable with > Veritas Cluster File System, but not OCFS2.? On these clusters, any problems > we encounter with an unknown cause are attributed to OCFS2.? They want to > replace OCFS2 with Veritas. > > > > Can anyone provide Pros and Cons of OCFS2 when compared to Veritas? > > > > Thanks, > > Reid > > > > Reid McKinley > > > > ******************************************************************************************** > This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are > not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then > delete it. > > TIAA-CREF > ******************************************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >
Good point. We have to have a CFS for another reason so we figured we would use OCFS2 since we already had it installed and configured. ----- Original Message ----- From: John McNulty <johnmcn1 at googlemail.com> To: McKinley, Reid Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com <ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com> Sent: Tue Jan 26 20:25:38 2010 Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 vs. Veritas CFS Why are you even considering using a cluster filesystem (of any kind) for OCR and Voting disks? With 11g Clusterware you can use the block devices of the shared disks (or multipath devices) directly. There's no need to complicate things by using a filesystem. John 2010/1/26 McKinley, Reid <RMckinley at tiaa-cref.org>:> We have deployed 4 different Oracle 11GR1 RAC clusters on Linux using OCFS2 > for the OCR and Voting disks. > > > > Our system administrators are new to OCFS2 and are very comfortable with > Veritas Cluster File System, but not OCFS2.? On these clusters, any problems > we encounter with an unknown cause are attributed to OCFS2.? They want to > replace OCFS2 with Veritas. > > > > Can anyone provide Pros and Cons of OCFS2 when compared to Veritas? > > > > Thanks, > > Reid > > > > Reid McKinley > > > > ******************************************************************************************** > This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are > not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then > delete it. > > TIAA-CREF > ******************************************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users >******************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. TIAA-CREF ******************************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-users/attachments/20100126/03ad19a5/attachment.html