[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 hosting and running binaries

[Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle)]

Hi Saul, I see Metalink note 236826.1 has the following that will answer one of the last questions:
Unlike the previous release (OCFS), OCFS2 is a general-purpose file system that can be used for shared Oracle home installations making management of Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) installations even easier..
Hope this helps! Regards!
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From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Saul Gabay
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:09 PM
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Subject: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 hosting and running binaries

We are currently using OCFS2 to host multiple Oracle 10g RAC databases on Itanium servers running Redhat AS 4.7, we are running this OCFS2 version so far with no issues

ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.2.9-1.el4

We would like to use OCFS2 to host binaries files for the database and / or application.

This will be 4 active nodes mounting an OCFS2 formatted LUN through iSCSI.

What are the issues, caveats or things we need to be aware if we take this approach.

Like, is there a limit on the number of files or directories hosted on OCFS2?

Are there a performance issue / degradation in comparison with GFS hosting binaries files?

What are the good, bad and ugly of OCFS2 in comparison with GFS hosting binaries files?

Is OCFS2 certified by Oracle to run database/application binaries?

Please advice what is your experience on this topic, it will be greatly appreciated.

Saul

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