Great -- what an advice!<BR><BR><B><I>Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran@oracle.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Well, here's your chance to find the problem and fix it. :)<BR><BR>Anjan Chakraborty wrote:<BR>> Can you define what does it mean by "flakiness"?<BR>> Here are points and after that tell me whether my comparision is <BR>> apples-to-apples or apples-to-oranges.<BR>> 1. Why CRS installation on OCFS2/Shared drive based file system worked <BR>> fine but not Oracle RDBMS?<BR>> 2. If I use EXT3 on that Shared drive, there is no problem (but that <BR>> doesn't give Cluster feature & so unacceptable).<BR>> So, the shared drive has no problem, not at all and blaming that won't <BR>> solve the issue -- it got to be somewhere between OCFS2, Oracle RDBMS <BR>> & OS specific binaries.<BR>> What's your opinion now?<BR>><BR>> */Sunil Mushran
<SUNIL.MUSHRAN@ORACLE.COM>/* wrote:<BR>><BR>> When you use RAW, you are using it for only datafiles and<BR>> not binary homes. So you are not comparing apples-to-apples.<BR>><BR>> Bottomline, the fs requires a stable shared disk to work. Any<BR>> flakiness in the shared disk, and you will encounter the errors<BR>> that you are experiencing.<BR>><BR>> Anjan Chakraborty wrote:<BR>> > Mark,<BR>> > Unfortunately that's not an option. Because I am doing it for<BR>> > non-busines/educational purpose & I/we don't have money to go for<BR>> > anything except FireWire. Moreover, if I use only RAW partitions of<BR>> > that FireWire drive, everything works fine. So, it's clearly an<BR>> OCFS2<BR>> > issue. Can you please ask your enginners to look into this if they<BR>> > have time?<BR>> > I heard many people (e.g. Jeff Hunter who wrote how to do it) have<BR>> > implemented FireWire/OCFS2/CRS/RAC
witthout any issue -- and if<BR>> that<BR>> > is the case, why wouldn't it work for us?<BR>> > Thanks for your help.<BR>> > Anjan<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > */Mark Fasheh /* wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:32:52AM -0800, Anjan Chakraborty wrote:<BR>> > > Mark,<BR>> > > Thanks to both of you for trying to help me.<BR>> > > I have alreaddy communicated to Luis that I have to have OCFS2<BR>> > because my<BR>> > > software needs Clustering technology that is absent in EXT3.<BR>> > Moreover, both CRS<BR>> > > & RDBMS homes should also be on shared/clustered system -- so,<BR>> > OCFS2 is the<BR>> > > only choice.<BR>> > > If you can help me to understand/resolve this issue, I will<BR>> > really appreciate<BR>> > > that.<BR>> > > Please note that my FireWire shared drive works perfectly when I<BR>> > use
RAW but as<BR>> > > soon as I am trying to use OCFS2, all the problems started.<BR>> ><BR>> > Where did you get the drivers for a shared firewire disk from? Can<BR>> > you try<BR>> > iscsi or aoe for your shared disk? The shared-disk firewire stuff<BR>> > is known<BR>> > to be flakey and was only ever intended for quick proto-typing.<BR>> ><BR>> > Actually, a while ago one of our engineers was consistently getting<BR>> > corruptions on every block which would change the inode<BR>> signature from<BR>> > "INODE01" to "KNODE01". Getting him off of the firewire stuff<BR>> > solved that<BR>> > issue (hardware and ocfs2 version stayed the same). I'd venture to<BR>> > guess<BR>> > that you're hitting the same type of problem.<BR>> > --Mark<BR>> ><BR>> > --<BR>> > Mark Fasheh<BR>> > Senior Software Developer, Oracle<BR>> >
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