[Ocfs2-users] Hi

[Wim Coekaerts]

let's all take a breather here.

I don't think sunil wanted to state that no one can give their opinion.

We try our best to make things work well and want to make sure that when 
someone makes a statement it's clear that this is their statement. 
Alexei tends to also be pretty rough in his posts and for people working 
hard on something that can get very difficult at times as well. what it 
comes down to is that alexei has his strong opinions and are as such - 
his personal opinions.

when it comes down to what is formally supported, the certification 
matrix is the source of truth. as always its possible to find an 
individual that makes a certain recommendation in the support 
organization and that might sometimes conflict with other 
recommendations. what it comes down to is that if you run oracle rdbms 
on ocfs2 you get support, if that somehow gets denied, you should 
escalate that, it's a supported configuration of use. whether someone 
recommends against it or not. problems should get addressed/resolved.

but that's separate from ocfs2 the open source project of course.

Wim



Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> Sunil Mushran wrote:
>   
>> None of what you have written allows you to use our resources to
>> spread your opinions as official recommendation.
>>     
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> I don't think he said that oracle doesn't recommend that solution.
> What about your resources? Are ext3 and heartbeat your resources? I want
> to hear Alexi's opinion as well as yours Sunil.
>
> RCR
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>> Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
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>>> Yes, you distribute and support OCFSv2; but Oracle is another story,
>>> and the
>>> common recommendation
>>> from many different Oracle engineers (not related to OCFSv2) is
>>> _don't use
>>> OCFS for RAC files /OCRFile and CSSFile/_. Which I fully agree - it
>>> don't
>>> have any benefits but a lot of headache. Using OCFSv2 for backups or
>>> archive
>>> logs is another story, for example.
>>>
>>> Oracle itself have not a SINGLE opinion (to be curious, I hear a strong
>>> recommendation against OCFSv2 from oracle support, which I can not agree
>>> with), so we can't treat your recommendations as official as well -
>>> you are
>>> interested in OCFSv2 while users are not (users are interested in
>>> making our
>>> data centers run smoothly). The only _official_ thing is _certification
>>> matrix_.
>>>       
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