[Ocfs2-users] OCFSv2 in a mail cluster environment

[Alexei_Roudnev]

You better try SLES9 SP3, not SLES10. Numerous reposts comes about problems
with SLES10 OCFSv2 (at least dont try it until SP1 is completed).

On the other hand, SLES9 SP3 and OCFSv2 works pretty stable (but I'd better
test it in less critical application).

PS. When working with SLES, don't forget to upgrade. SLES9 SP3 had not OCFS,
SLES9 SP3 kernel 282 had few OCFSv2 bugs,m and last kernel #283 have a very
stable OCFSv2 version. SLES10 OCFS - I know that Novell have a lab testing
SLES10 + evms + heartbeat2 + OCFSv2, but we don't know hos succesfull are
they making it all stable enough for production.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergio Lopez" <slopez at efor.es>
To: <ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:42 AM
Subject: [Ocfs2-users] OCFSv2 in a mail cluster environment


> Hello,
>
> First, thanks to all the people who helped to license this software under
> the GPL. This is a very important piece of work for the Free Software in
the
> Enterprise Market.
>
> Just a few newbie questions. We've been thinking about implmenting a mail
> cluster with a Fiber SAN (IBM DS-4000) and OCFSv2 as the storage
> backend. The information on this volume will essentially be Postfix
> Maildirs, about 20.000 accounts. I've heard some complains about the
memory
> usage and stability problems under some environments. At this time, do you
> think that OCFSv2 is suitable for this purpose? Should we wait a little
and
> stick with NFS for a time?
>
> On the other hand, I'd like to use SLES10 and the OCFSv2 version that
ships
> with it for our machines. Are there some recommendations about a preferred
> distro and OCFSv2 version to use (apart from the "ORACLE SUPPORT AND
> CERTIFICATION" section found in the website, which seems to be only for
> database use)?
>
> Thanks in advance! :-)
>
> -- 
> Sergio Lopez
> Dpto. Sistemas - EFOR Consulting
> slopez at efor.es - 976467878
>
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