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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Hi Karim,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">this sounds <font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2">I don’t know why you have concerns about networking with your standby. But I really suggest waive OCFS2. Believe me, you will run into lot of trouble. And this sounds to me, like a
very important system. OCFS2 makes the solution more complex and more fragile.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2">Please do not misunderstand this. OCFS2 is a good file system. But OCFS2 in conjunction with CLUSTERWARE/CRS will be very tricky. If there is no way, make sure that your timings will
work perfect! Otherwise you will have a tumbler.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2">Networking should not be your problem. A good switch and some truncs and may be some bonding und you will be save.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Arial" size="2">Good Luck</font></p>
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