[Ocfs2-users] future of ocfs2

[Jeremy Schneider]

Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Your qs is not new. I have heard people speculate about ocfs2's future 
> for many years now. First it was ASM. Now something else.

Thanks for the responses, everyone. These aren't new questions - of 
course - but they are persistent; and sometimes rumors about new 
features coupled with someone who "worked at Oracle at heard that ocfs2 
had some problems" and a pinch of psychological bias (c.f. 
http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-usefulness-of-software.html ) 
can prevail over reasonable dialog. :)

I've been pretty enthusiastic about ocfs ever since I contributed that 
little bugfix to ocfs1 years ago but I haven't been keeping up-to-date 
on recent ocfs2 developments. I didn't do any major deployments on ocfs 
while I was consulting (we generally deployed RAC with ASM and 
local-storage only) and the company I'm with now hasn't had any 
experience with it. And since there's a little internal resistance to 
this technology for the reasons outlined above, I need to sell it 
internally.

Thanks especially to Sunil for mentioning Suse and the RH Linux Cluster 
Group and to Joel for the point-by-point reply. Also thanks to Andrew, 
LS, Julio and Alan for the non-Oracle-Corp perspectives - I need to hear 
back from some people who don't work at Oracle.  (The oracle-l list is 
great for that!)

It would also be helpful to hear if anyone has done wide deployments of 
OCFS. (How many systems do you have running it?) Or any other 
experiences/stories about working with ocfs2. I'm curious - how many 
people on the oracle-l list are running ocfs2?

Thanks again for all the feedback; I'll be sure to post an update later 
with some of the outcomes!

-Jeremy

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Jeremy Schneider
Chicago, IL
http://www.ardentperf.com