[Ocfs2-users] Hi

[Randy Ramsdell]

Wim Coekaerts wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
I reread my statements and thought they were too harsh. I apologize.

rcr
> 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.
>>>     
>>
>> 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:
>>>    
>>>> 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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