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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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.<BR>
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From: John McNulty <johnmcn1@googlemail.com><BR>
To: McKinley, Reid<BR>
Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com <ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com><BR>
Sent: Tue Jan 26 20:25:38 2010<BR>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 vs. Veritas CFS<BR>
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Why are you even considering using a cluster filesystem (of any kind)<BR>
for OCR and Voting disks? With 11g Clusterware you can use the block<BR>
devices of the shared disks (or multipath devices) directly. There's<BR>
no need to complicate things by using a filesystem.<BR>
<BR>
John<BR>
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2010/1/26 McKinley, Reid <RMckinley@tiaa-cref.org>:<BR>
> We have deployed 4 different Oracle 11GR1 RAC clusters on Linux using OCFS2<BR>
> for the OCR and Voting disks.<BR>
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> Our system administrators are new to OCFS2 and are very comfortable with<BR>
> Veritas Cluster File System, but not OCFS2. On these clusters, any problems<BR>
> we encounter with an unknown cause are attributed to OCFS2. They want to<BR>
> replace OCFS2 with Veritas.<BR>
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> Can anyone provide Pros and Cons of OCFS2 when compared to Veritas?<BR>
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> Thanks,<BR>
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> Reid<BR>
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> Reid McKinley<BR>
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